Our first century . party, which united withthe second one and worked havoc in various settlementsin New Hampshire and in Maine. The methods of warfare at that time were based uponthe idea of pure butchery and unlimited when a village was overcome its houseswere burned, its people of both sexes and all ages wereslaughtered, and those who were spared were carried away 174 OUR FIRST CENTURY into a captivity which was scarcely less terrible than thebutchery itself. In the meanwhile the English colonists were not idle,though they had no commander fit to cope with such asol
Our first century . party, which united withthe second one and worked havoc in various settlementsin New Hampshire and in Maine. The methods of warfare at that time were based uponthe idea of pure butchery and unlimited when a village was overcome its houseswere burned, its people of both sexes and all ages wereslaughtered, and those who were spared were carried away 174 OUR FIRST CENTURY into a captivity which was scarcely less terrible than thebutchery itself. In the meanwhile the English colonists were not idle,though they had no commander fit to cope with such asoldier as Frontenac. In May, 1690, a congress of theEnglish colonists was held in New York and it orderedattacks upon Montreal and Quebec, but these operationscame to little because of incapable leadership. The ex-pedition against Montreal, after attacking some Frenchsettlements, retired without accompHshing anything ofconsequence. The movement upon Quebec was com-manded by no less a person than Sir William Phips, who. Matchlock gun and matchlock. had a little while before captured Port Royal and theprovince of Acadia. Sir William succeeded in taking hisships to Quebec but he failed in his effort to capture thatstronghold. During the next year an expedition was sent out from SLAUGHTER AND DESTRUCTION 175 Albany, under the leadership of Peter Schuyler, to ravageFrench settlements. But Schuyler failed of his purposeand escaped destruction only by accident and by desper-ate fighting. Thus for eight years King Williams war continued withravage and slaughter as its incidents in every Schenectady, for example, about sixty people werekilled including men, women and children, indiscrimi-nately, for at that time neither the Indians nor many oftheir (Janadian French allies had become sufficiently gal-lant soldiers to refuse to make war upon women and chil-dren. Worse still, many of the people of Schenectady,including women and children, were carried off into cap-tivity, some o
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