Telescope - 5 - In The Conspiracy of Pontiac, only events attending the siege of Detroit have much "naval" character (if one can consider naval engagements to include bateaux). In pages that follow, Telescope presents a selection of these episodes, drawn from the two-volume 1870 revision of The Conspiracy of Pontiac. Readers who fall under Parkman's spell may then visit their nearest library to read more. And if eleven volumes are forbidding to ambition, there is the Parkman Reader in one volume compiled by Samuel Eliot Morison. --GPB Francis Parkman 1763, MAY. A party of British troops took possession of Detroit towards the close of the year 1760. The British garrison, consisting partly of regulars and partly of provincial rangers, was now quartered in a well-built range of barracks within the town or fort. The latter.. .contained about a hundred small houses. Its form was nearly square, and the palisade - Eight Marine Episodes in the Siege of Detroit -1763-64- -From The Conspiracy of Pontiac which surrounded it was about twenty-five feet high. At each corner was a wooden bastion, and a blockhouse was erected over each gateway. The houses were small, chiefly built of wood, and roofed with bark or a thatch of straw. The streets also were extremely narrow, though a wide passage way, known as the ahemin du ronde, surrounded the town, between the houses and the palisade. Besides the barracks, the only public buildings were a council-house and a rude little church.