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South America (search for this): chapter 3
h nations: Chap. XXI.} France had triumphed over sovereignties, and Spain over religions. But Spain was not only deficient in active intelligence, and in toleration; she also had lost men. From Ferdinand the Catholic to Philip III., she had expelled three millions of Jews and Moors; her inferior nobility emigrated to America: in 1702, her census enumerated less than seven million souls. The nation that once would have invaded England, had no navy; and, having the mines of Mexico and South America, it needed subscriptions for its defence. Foreigners, by means of loans and mortgages, gained more than seven eighths of the wealth from America, and furnished more than nine tenths of the merchandise shipped for the colonies. Spanish commerce had expired; Spanish manufactures had declined; even agriculture had fallen a victim to mortmains and privilege. Inactivity was followed by poverty; and the dynasty itself be- 1701 Oct. 30. came extinct. If the doctrine of legitimacy were to
Cahokia (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
etual perils and opposition from sorcerers, succeeded in beginning the establishment which was destined to endure. When the founder of Kaskaskia was recalled to Mackinaw, he was relieved by two missionaries—by Pinet, who became the founder of Cahokia, preaching with such success, that his chapel could not contain the multitude that thronged to him; and Binnetau, who left his mission among the Abenakis to die on the upland plains of the Mississippi. Having followed the tribe to which he was es and rivers, to catch a poor savage who flies from us, and whom we can Lett. Ed. IV 197. tame neither by teachings nor by caresses. In 1711, on Good Friday, Marest started for the Peorias, who desired a new mission. In two days he reached Cahokia. I departed, he writes again, having nothing about me but my crucifix and my breviary, being accompanied by only three savages, who might abandon me from levity, or from fear of enemies might fly. The horror of these vast, uninhabited forest re
Quebec (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3
. Exulting in their success, they returned to Quebec. In the east, blood was first shed at CocheHertel met the war party, under Portneuf, from Quebec, and, with them and a reenforcement from Castisecurity, Oct. 10. was preparing to return to Quebec, he heard that an Abenaki, hurrying through tf the fourteenth of October, Frontenac reached Quebec. The inhabitants of the vicinity were assembllve hundred men were to aid in the conquest of Quebec; from the central provinces, fifteen hundred wsona- Charlevoix, II. 351-361 bly received in Quebec; and the measures of defence began by a renewauted the defence of Montreal. Descending to Quebec, Vaudreuil found Abenaki volunteers assemblingshould secure his vessels during the winter at Quebec. Fearing the ice in the river, freezing to thimpossible to proceed. Had we arrived safe at Quebec, wrote the admiral, ten or twelve thousand me the north-east. The failure of the attack on Quebec left Nicholson n option but to retreat, and Mo[3 more...]
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
privileged companies were the patrons of Southern Louisiana; but the honor of beginning the work of the dividing line between that province and Louisiana was drawn between the bays of Pensacola and ained, under Providence, the guardianship of Louisiana, not, as it proved, for its own benefit, but France, his brother, in March, explored Western Louisiana, and, crossing the Red River, approachedas a convenient station for ships. Such was Louisiana in the days of its founder. Attacked by the02. lost a hero worthy of their regret. But Louisiana, at his departure, was little more than a wit. Augustine to the incipient settlements in Louisiana; and, in the last weeks of 1705, a company oench in the west. In St. John the colony of Louisiana excited apprehensions of the future undertakrench in North America. The colonization of Louisiana had been proposed to Queen Anne; yet, at the dominion of Great Britain. But how far did Louisiana extend? It included, according to French id
Blenheim (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3
ge of the praying Indians near Montreal, she became a prose yte to the Catholic faith, and the wife of a Cahnewaga chief; and when, after long years, she visited her friends at Deerfield, she appeared in an Indian dress: and, after a short sojourn, in spite of a day of fast of Chap. XXI.} a whole village, which assembled to pray for her deliverance, she returned to the fires of her own wigwam, and to the love of her own Mohawk children. There is no tale to tell of battles like those of Blenheim or of Ramillies, but only one sad narrative of rural dangers and sorrows. In the following years, the 1705 to 1707. Indians stealthily approached towns in the heart of Massachusetts, as well as along the coast, and on the southern and western frontiers. Children, as they gamboled on the beach; reapers, as they gathered the harvest; mowers, as they rested from using the scythe mothers, as they busied themselves about the household,—were victims to an enemy who disappeared the moment a blo
Haverhill (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ther 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 bef 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 lHaverhill was, at that time, a cluster of thirty cot- Chap XXI.} tages and log-cabins, embosomed in the primeval forests, near the tranquil Merrimac. In the centre of the 1708 settlement stood a new meeting-house, the pride of the village. On the few acres of open land, the ripening Indian corn rose over the charred stumps of trees, and on the north and west bordered on the illimitable, unbroken wildern
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
t Montreal, while Massachusetts should, with a fleet, attack Quebec. Thus did Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Chap. XXI.} York, having, at that time, each a government consti- 1690. tuted by i trail. The projected attack by land was defeated by divisions,—Leisler charging Winthrop of Connecticut with treachery, and the forces from Connecticut blaming Milborne, the commissary of New York,Connecticut blaming Milborne, the commissary of New York, for the insufficiency of the supplies. But, just as Frontenac, in the full pride of security, Oct. 10. was preparing to return to Quebec, he heard that an Abenaki, hurrying through the woods insh sovereignty. The colonies kindled at the prospect: to defray the expenses of preparation, Connecticut, and New York, and New Jersey, then first issued bills of credit; stores were collected; Chat Boston, taking in supplies and the colonial forces. At the same time, an army of men from Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, Palatine emigrants, and about six hundred Iroquois, assembling at
Onondaga, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Salt Springs, Aug. 3. while a party was sent to ravage the country of the Oneidas, with orders to cut up their corn, burn their villages, put to death all who should offer resistance, and take six chiefs as hostages. Meantime, an aged Aug. 8. Onondaga captive, who had refused to fly, was abandoned to the fury of the allies of the French; and never did the marvellous fortitude of an Indian brave display more fully its character of passive grandeur. All the tortures that more than four hundreissioners to be appointed under the treaty of Ryswick. That the Five Nations were always con- Smith, 157 sidered subjects of England, said Bellamont, can be manifested to all the world; but De Callieres, send- 1697 ing ambassadors directly to Onondaga to regulate the exchange of prisoners, avoided an immediate decision. The Iroquois were proud of their independence; France asserted its right to dominion; England claimed to be in possession. Religious sympathies inclined the nations to the F
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
scribed as irreconcilable to the government and the religion of Great Britain. Louis XIV. took up arms in defence of legitimacy; and Englanecognizing the son of the royal exile as the legitimate king of Great Britain. Thus the war for the balance of power, for colonial territoryhe Gulf of Mexico, the sav- Chap XXI.} ages were overawed; and Great Britain established anew claim to the central forests that were soon toe conservative influence of its foreign policy, had no dread of Great Britain as the supporter in arms of revolutionary principles. As no eythe maritime powers which aspired to the dominion of the seas. Great Britain, moreover, remained in possession of Gibraltar, her strongest f monopoly of Spain. There shall be trade, it was said, between Great Britain and Spain, and their respective plantations and provinces, whershould never molest the Five Nations subject to the dominion of Great Britain. But how far did Louisiana extend? It included, according to
France (France) (search for this): chapter 3
ied between the Iroquois, on the one side, and France and her Indian allies, on the other. The Rat,nd shared in the Indian trade of the west; but France kept the mastery of the great lakes, and De Catablishing direct maritime intercourse between France and the Mississippi. On the seventeenth daynsacola. While D'Iberville himself sailed for France, his two brothers, May 9 Sauvolle and Bienville descended to his ships, soon to em bark for France, his brother, in March, explored Western Louis in our destinies; and she long remained, like France, the enemy to our fathers as subjects of Englaeim, fatal to the military reputation of 1704 France, revealed the exhaustion of the kingdom. The r coast. The Five Nations, at peace with both France and England, protected New York by a mutual coinions; and this, also, was amicably settled. France assented to the emancipation of England from trty of the seas,—prohibiting all commerce with France,—and to the protest of Hol- 1689. Aug. 22. la[49 more...]<
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