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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
e colonists; Louis XIV., James II., and his successors, Queen Anne, Bolingbroke, and Lady Masham, thought it no harm to derive money from the slave-trade; and, in the pages of Charlevoix, the unavailing cruelties of midnight incendiaries, the murder Chap. XXI.} and scalping of the inhabitants of peaceful villages, and the captivity of helpless women and children, are diffusely narrated as actions that were brave and beautiful. Once, indeed, a mother achieved a startling revenge. 1697. March 15. Seven days after her confinement, the Indian prowlers raised their shouts near the house of Hannah Dustin, of Haverhill: her husband rode home from the field; but too late to provide for her rescue. He must fly, if he would save even one of his seven children, who had hurried before him into the forest. But, from the cowering flock, how could a father make a choice? With gun in his hand, he now repels the assault, now cheers on the innocent group of little ones, as they rustle through t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
vents As England, by its arrogant encroachments on Spain, unconsciously enlarged the commercial freedom, or began the independence, of colonies; so France, by its unjustifiable war on Austria, floated from its moorings, and foreboded the wreck of Catholic legitimacy. In the great European contest, England, true to its policy of connecting itself with the second continental 1744 Feb. power, gave subsidies to Austria. The fleets of England and France meet in the Mediterranean; the fleet March 15. of England is victorious. France declares war against England also; and the little conflicts in America are lost in the universal conflagration of Europe. Never die history present such a scene of confusion. While the selfishness which had produced the general Chap XXIV} war, was itself without faith, it made use of all the resources that were offered by ancient creeds or ancient animosities, by Protestantism and the Roman church, legitimacy and the mercantile system, the ancient ri