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March 1st (search for this): chapter 3
after midnight. When, at the approach of morning, the unfaithful sentinels retired, the war party entered within the palisades, Chap XXI.} which drifts of snow had made useless; and the war-whoop of the savages bade each family prepare 1704 for captivity or death. The village was set on fire, and all but the church and one dwelling-house were consumed. Of the inhabitants, but few escaped: forty-seven were killed; one hundred and twelve, including the minister and his family, were made Mar. 1. captives. One hour after sunrise, the party began its return to Canada. But who would know the horrors of that winter march through the wilderness? Two men starved to death. Did a young child weep from fatigue, or a feeble woman totter from anguish under the burden of her own offspring, the tomahawk stilled complaint, or the helpless infant was cast out upon the snow. Eunice Williams, the wife of the minister, had not forgotten her Bible; and, when they rested by the way-side, or, at n
January, 1699 AD (search for this): chapter 3
red settlers, including a few women and children,—most of the men being disband- Chap. XXI.} ed Canadian soldiers,—embarked for the Mississippi, which, as yet, had never been entered from the sea. 1698. Happier 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 o
September 16th (search for this): chapter 3
ad interpolated into his former narrative a journal of his pretended voyage down the river. This had been published in London at the very moment when the fort at Biloxi was in progress; and, at once, an exploring expedition, 1699. under the auspices of Coxe, a proprietor of New Jersey, sought also for the mouths of the Mississippi. When Bienville, who passed the summer in exploring the forks below the site of New Orleans, descended the river, he met an English ship of sixteen guns, com- Sept. 16. manded by Barr,—one of two vessels which had been sent to sound the passes of the majestic stream. Giving heed to the assertion of Bienville of French supremacy, as proved by French establishments, the English captain turned back; and the bend in the river which was the scene of the interview was named and is still called, English Turn. Thus failed the vast project of Coxe to possess Chap XXI} what he styled the English province of Carolana. But Hennepin—who, had he but loved truth,
September 29th (search for this): chapter 3
d bills of credit; stores were collected; Chap. XXI.} the troops levied from the hardy agriculturists. But no English fleet arrived; and the energies that had been roused were wasted in inactive expectation. At last, in 1710, the final successful expedition against 1710. Acadia took place. At the instance of Nicholson, who had been in England for that purpose, and under his command, six English vessels, joined by thirty of New England, and four New England regiments, sailed in Sept. 18-29. September from Boston. In six days, the fleet anchored before the fortress of Port Royal. The garrison of Subercase, the French governor, was weak and disheartened, and could not be rallied; murmurs and desertions multiplied: the terms of capitulation were easily con- Oct. 1-12. certed; the tattered garrison, one hundred and fifty-six in number, marched out with the honors of war, to Oct. 5-16. beg food as alms. Famine would have soon compelled Charlevoix, II 343, 346. a surrender at di
September 25th (search for this): chapter 3
e against Eng- 1689 June 25. land, Count Frontenac, once more governor of Canada, was charged to recover Hudson's Bay; to protect Acadia; and, by a descent from Canada, to assist a fleet from France in making conquest of New York. Of that province De Callieres was, in advance, appointed governor; the English Catholics were to be permitted to remain,—other inhabitants, to be sent into Pennsylvania or New England. But, on reaching the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Frontenac learned the capture of Sept. 25. Montreal. On the twenty-fifth of August, the Iroquois, fifteen 1689. Aug. 25. hundred in number, reached the Isle of Montreal, at La Chine, at break of day, and, finding all asleep, set fire to the houses, and engaged in one general massacre. In less than an hour, two hundred people met death under forms too horrible for description. Approaching the town of Montreal, they made an equal number of prisoners, and, after a severe skirmish, became masters of the fort, and of the whole isl
March 27th (search for this): chapter 3
at place and their children!) and the dwellings set on fire. Of the inhabitants, some, half clad, fled through the snows to Albany; sixty were massacred, of whom seventeen were children, and ten were Africans. For such ends had the hardships of a winter's expedition, frost, famine, and frequent deaths, been encountered: such was war. The party from Three Rivers, led by Hertel, and consisting of but fifty-two persons, of whom three were his sons, and two his nephews, surprised the set- March 27. tlement at Salmon Falls, on the Piscataqua, and, after a bloody engagement, burned houses, barns, and cattle in the stalls, and took fifty-four prisoners, chiefly women and children. The prisoners were laden by the victors with spoils from their own homes. Robert Rogers, rejecting his burden, was bound by the Indians to a Chap. XXI.} tree, and dry leaves kindled about him, yet in such 1690 heaps as would burn but slowly. Mary Furguson, a girl of fifteen, burst into tears from fatigue
October 5th (search for this): chapter 3
English vessels, joined by thirty of New England, and four New England regiments, sailed in Sept. 18-29. September from Boston. In six days, the fleet anchored before the fortress of Port Royal. The garrison of Subercase, the French governor, was weak and disheartened, and could not be rallied; murmurs and desertions multiplied: the terms of capitulation were easily con- Oct. 1-12. certed; the tattered garrison, one hundred and fifty-six in number, marched out with the honors of war, to Oct. 5-16. beg food as alms. Famine would have soon compelled Charlevoix, II 343, 346. a surrender at discretion. In honor of the queen, the place was called Annapolis. The French were unwilling to abandon the hope of recovering possession. Vaudreuil, having appointed Castin his lieutenant for Acadia, in the winter of 1710, sent messengers over the snows to the missionaries, to preserve the zeal and patriotism of the Indian allies and the inhabitants; but, from that day to this, the English fl
October 1st (search for this): chapter 3
who effected a landing at Beauport? Before them was a fortified town de- Oct. 8/18. fended by a garrison far more numerous than the assailants, and protected by marshes and a river fordable only at low tide. The diversion against Montreal had Oct. 1 1/21. utterly failed: the New England men reembark, and sail for Boston. In Quebec there were great rejoicings. For the church in the lower town, the yearly Hawkins, 140 and 228 festival of Our Lady of Victory was established; and in France an six days, the fleet anchored before the fortress of Port Royal. The garrison of Subercase, the French governor, was weak and disheartened, and could not be rallied; murmurs and desertions multiplied: the terms of capitulation were easily con- Oct. 1-12. certed; the tattered garrison, one hundred and fifty-six in number, marched out with the honors of war, to Oct. 5-16. beg food as alms. Famine would have soon compelled Charlevoix, II 343, 346. a surrender at discretion. In honor of the q
16th (search for this): chapter 3
xcursion from Albany by land succeeded, Walley Cotton Mather Hutchinson. Hawkins. —had pilots, or fair winds, or decision in the commander, conducted the fleet more rapidly but by three days,—the castle of St. Louis would have been surprised Le Clercq Charlevoir. and taken. But, in the night of the fourteenth of October, Frontenac reached Quebec. The inhabitants of the vicinity were assembled; and the fortifications of the city had already been put in a tenable condition, when, on the sixteenth, at daybreak, the fleet from Boston came in sight, and soon cast anchor near Beauport, in the stream. It was too late. The herald from the ship of the admiral, demanding a surrender of the place, was dismissed with scoffs. What availed the courage of the citizen soldiers who effected a landing at Beauport? Before them was a fortified town de- Oct. 8/18. fended by a garrison far more numerous than the assailants, and protected by marshes and a river fordable only at low tide. The dive
October 16th (search for this): chapter 3
sh vessels, joined by thirty of New England, and four New England regiments, sailed in Sept. 18-29. September from Boston. In six days, the fleet anchored before the fortress of Port Royal. The garrison of Subercase, the French governor, was weak and disheartened, and could not be rallied; murmurs and desertions multiplied: the terms of capitulation were easily con- Oct. 1-12. certed; the tattered garrison, one hundred and fifty-six in number, marched out with the honors of war, to Oct. 5-16. beg food as alms. Famine would have soon compelled Charlevoix, II 343, 346. a surrender at discretion. In honor of the queen, the place was called Annapolis. The French were unwilling to abandon the hope of recovering possession. Vaudreuil, having appointed Castin his lieutenant for Acadia, in the winter of 1710, sent messengers over the snows to the missionaries, to preserve the zeal and patriotism of the Indian allies and the inhabitants; but, from that day to this, the English flag ha
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