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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), William's War, King (search)
h King having espoused the cause of James, war between England and France soon began, and extended to their together, accompanied by a father confessor. The Indians, remembering the treachery of Major Waldron, at Dover, fearfully slaked their thirst for vengeance there. It was the first town attacked (July 7, 1689), when the venerable Major Waldron and twenty others of the garrison were killed, and twenty-nine made captives and sold as servants to the French in Canada. Instigated by Father Thury, a Jesuit, an Indian war-party fell (Aug. 12) upon the English stockade at Pemmaquid, built by Andros, and captured the garrison. A The death of Major Waldron. respective colonies in America. When the declaration of war between the two nations reached America, the eastern Indians were easily excited to make war by the Baron de Castine, seated at the mouth of the Penobscot, and the Jesuit missionaries among the Indians. The recent revocation of the Edict of Nantes had kindled fiercely