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Portsmouth, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
,—having travelled near one hundred and fifty leagues through almost impracticable paths,—made their rendezvous at Winnipiseogee. There they failed to meet the expected aid from the Abenakis, and in consequence were too feeble for an attack on Portsmouth; they therefore descended the Merrimac to the town of Haverhill, resolving to sack a remote village, rather than return without striking a blow. Haverhill was, at that time, a cluster of thirty cot- Chap XXI.} tages and log-cabins, embosomefit of favorites. Improve to-day, instead of depending on to- Harley's Brief Account. morrow;—such was the secretary's admonition to his admiral. The queen is very uneasy at the unac- Bol. Cor. i. 154. countable loss of time in your stay at Portsmouth. Yet the fleet did sail at last; and when St. John heard of its safe arrival at Boston, he wrote exultingly to the duke of Orrery, I believe you may depend on our be- Bol. Cor. i. 208. ing masters, at this time, of all North America. From <
Vera Cruz, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ppier than La Salle, the leader of the enterprise won confidence and affection every where: the governor of St. Domingo gave him a welcome, and bore Dec. a willing testimony to his genius and his good judgment. A larger ship of war from that station joined the expedition, which, in January, 1699, caught a 1699 Jan. 27. glimpse of the continent, and anchored before the Island St. Rose. On the opposite shore, the fort of Pensacola had just been established by three hundred Spaniards from Vera Cruz. This prior occupation is the reason why, afterwards, Pensacola remained a part of Florida, and the dividing line between that province and Louisiana was drawn between the bays of Pensacola and Mobile. Obedient to his orders, and to the maxims of the mercantile system, the governor of Pensacola would allow no foreign vessel to enter the harbor. Sailing to the west, D'Iberville cast anchor south-south-east of the eastern point of Mobile, and landed on Massacre, or, as it was rather calle
Halifax (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3
-fish is suspended in the hall of its representatives. Thus France, bounding its territory next New England by the Kennebec, claimed the whole eastern coast, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Hudson's Bay; and, to assert and defend this boundless region, Acadia and its dependencies counted but nine hundred Frng to bring seasonable supplies to Falmouth, sailed to Port Royal, which readily surrendered. New England was mistress of the coast to the eastern extremity of Nova Scotia, though the native hordes of that wilderness still retained their affection for the French. While the people of New England and New York were concerting the rance. But England obtained supremacy in the fisheries; the en- Chap. XXI.} tire possession of the Bay of Hudson and its borders, of Newfoundland, and of all Nova Scotia or Acadia, according to its ancient boundaries. It was agreed, also, that France should never molest the Five Nations subject to the dominion of Great Britain.
Port Nelson (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3
ckinaw lost, and a general rising of the natives would have completed the ruin of New France. Personal enterprise took the direction of the fur- 1689 trade: Port Nelson, in Hudson's Bay, and Fort Albany, were originally possessed by the French. The attention of the court of France was directed to the fisheries; and Acadia had lish posts from Fort Rupert to Albany River, leaving the English no trading house in the bay, except that of which, in 1685, they had dispossessed the French at Port Nelson. That post remained to the English; but the sons of Lemoine intercepted the forces which were sent to proclaim William of Orange monarch over jagged cliffs, 1ous Canadian, Lemoine D'Iberville. Present, as a volunteer, in the midnight attack upon Schenectady, where he was chiefly remembered for an act of clemency; at Port Nelson, calm amidst the crash of icebergs in which his vessels had become involved, and, though exceedingly moved by the loss of his young brother in a skirmish with t
Orange, N. J. (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ing the English no trading house in the bay, except that of which, in 1685, they had dispossessed the French at Port Nelson. That post remained to the English; but the sons of Lemoine intercepted the forces which were sent to proclaim William of Orange monarch over jagged cliffs, 1689. and deep ravines never warmed by a sunbeam,—over the glaciers and mountains, the rivers and tradinghouses in Hudson's Bay. Exulting in their success, they returned to Quebec. In the east, blood was first shelso presented to King William in council, and the members were unanimous in the opinion, that the settling of the banks of the Mississippi should be encouraged. I will leap over twenty stumbling-blocks, rather than not effect it, said William of Orange; and Coxe's Carolana. he often assured the proprietor of his willingness to send over, at his own cost, several hundred Huguenot and Vaudois refugees. But England was never destined to acquire more than a nominal possession of the Mississippi;
Newfoundland (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3
XXI.} not only New France and Acadia, Hudson's Bay and Newfoundland, but a claim to a moiety of Maine, of Vermont, and to m command the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and send supplies to Newfoundland, she would be sole mistress of the fisheries for cod. Himed the whole eastern coast, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Hudson's Bay; and, to assert and defend ther words, with the exception of the eastern moiety of Newfoundland, France retained the whole coast and adjacent islands, d; the successful invader of the English possessions on Newfoundland; and again, in 1697, in spite of icebergs and a shipwrerepeatedly made of forts to gain the French fortress on Newfoundland, and New England had desired the reduction of Acadia, assail Montreal; and, in one season, Acadia, Canada, and Newfoundland, were to be reduced under British sovereignty. The colire possession of the Bay of Hudson and its borders, of Newfoundland, and of all Nova Scotia or Acadia, according to its anc
Casco Bay (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ld linger apart in the snow to lull her infant to sleep, lest its cries should provoke the savages: angry at the delay, her master struck the child against a tree, and hung it among the branches. The infant of Mary Plaisted was thrown into the river, that, eased of her burden, she might walk faster. Returning from this expedition, Hertel met the war party, under Portneuf, from Quebec, and, with them and a reenforcement from Castin, made a successful attack on the fort and settlement in Casco Bay. May. Meantime, danger taught the colonies the necessity of union, and, on the first day of May, 1690, New York beheld the momentous example of an American congress. The idea originated with the government of Massachusetts, established by the people in the period that intervened between the overthrow of Andros and the arrival of the second charter; and the place of meeting was New York, where, likewise, the government had sprung directly from the action of the people. Thus, without
Gibralter (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
hysical force, but by the power of established interests, usages, and religion, and in some measure on sufferance, at the will of the maritime powers which aspired to the dominion of the seas. Great Britain, moreover, remained in possession of Gibraltar, her strongest fortress, the key to the Mediterranean. By insisting on the cession of the Spanish Netherlands to Austria, England lost its only hold on Spain; and by taking Gibraltar, it made Spain its implacable enemy. Again: by the peace Gibraltar, it made Spain its implacable enemy. Again: by the peace of Utrecht, Belgium was compelled to forego the advantages with which she had been endowed by the God of nature; to gratify commercial jealousy, Antwerp was denied the use of the deep waters that flowed by her walls; and afterwards the Austrian efforts at trade with the East Indies were suffocated in their infancy. This policy was an open violation of international justice,—a fraud upon humanity,—a restriction, by covenant, of national industry and prosperity. It was a pledge that Belgium wou
Labrador (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3
ested, that, to this day, the figure of a cod-fish is suspended in the hall of its representatives. Thus France, bounding its territory next New England by the Kennebec, claimed the whole eastern coast, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Hudson's Bay; and, to assert and defend this boundless region, Acadia and its dependencies counted but nine hundred French inhabitants. The missionaies, swaying the mind of the Abenakis, were the sole Chap. XXI.} source of hope. On thall Hudson's Bay, and all the places of which she was in possession at the beginning of the war; in other words, with the exception of the eastern moiety of Newfoundland, France retained the whole coast and adjacent islands, from Maine to beyond Labrador and Hudson's Bay, besides Canada and the valley of the Mississippi. But the boundary lines were reserved as subjects for wrangling among commissioners. On the east, England claimed to the St. Croix, and 1698. France to the Kennebec; and, ha
Marlboro, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
onsisting of fifteen ships-of-war and Chap. XXI.} forty transports, was placed under the command of Sir Hovenden Walker; the seven veteran regiments from 1711 Marlborough's army, with a battalion of marines, were intrusted to Mrs. Masham's second brother, whom the queen had pensioned and made a brigadier-general,— whom his bottle companions called honest Jack Hill,— whom, when a tall, ragged boy, the duchess of Marlborough had, from charity, put to school,—and whom the duke, refusing him a colonelcy, had properly described as good for nothing. In the preparations, the public treasury was defrauded for the benefit of favorites. Improve to-day, instead of ossible. Public opinion demanded the peace; and in England, where public opinion could reach the government, the tories came into power as the party of peace. Marlborough, who gave utterance to the sentiment that the enmity between England and France was irreconcilable, was dismissed; and humanity was pleased at the dismissal. <
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