A history of the American people . ho took the news ofthat field to the Queen. Marlborough won at Ramilliesand Eugene at Turin (1706). The two great captainstriumphed together at Oudenarde (1708) and at Malpla-quet (1709). The crowns of France and Spain wereseparated, and France was lightened of her overwhelm-ing weight in the balance of power. But for the colonies in America it was only QueenAnnes War/ full of anxiety, suffering, and disap-pointment,—massacres on the border, expeditions tothe north blundered and mismanaged, money andlives spent with little to show for the sacrifice. Theminist
A history of the American people . ho took the news ofthat field to the Queen. Marlborough won at Ramilliesand Eugene at Turin (1706). The two great captainstriumphed together at Oudenarde (1708) and at Malpla-quet (1709). The crowns of France and Spain wereseparated, and France was lightened of her overwhelm-ing weight in the balance of power. But for the colonies in America it was only QueenAnnes War/ full of anxiety, suffering, and disap-pointment,—massacres on the border, expeditions tothe north blundered and mismanaged, money andlives spent with little to show for the sacrifice. Theministers at home had made no preparation in Americafor the renewal of hostilities. There had been warningsenough, and appeals of deep urgency, sent out of thecolonies. Every observant man of affairs there sawwhat must come. But warnings and appeals had notbeen heeded. Ford Bellomont, that self-respecting gen-tleman and watchful governor, had told the ministersat home very plainly that there ought to be a line of30 COMMON UNDERTAKINGS. frontier posts at the north, with soldiers for colonists,and that simply to pursue the Indians once and againto the depths of the forests was as useless as to pur-sue birds that are on the wing. An English prisonerin the hands of the French had sent word what he3 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE heard they meant to do for the extension of their boun-daries and their power. The deputy governor of Penn-sylvania had proposed a colonial militia to be kept atthe frontier. Certain private gentlemen of the northernsettlements had begged for a common governor ofworth and honor/ and for some system of commondefence. Mr. Penn, looking on near at hand, had ad-vised that the colonists be drawn together in intercourseand interest by a common coinage, a common rule of citizenship, a com-mon system of jus-tice, and by dutieson foreign timberwhich would insome degree offsetthe burdens of theNavigation Acts,—as well as bycommon organiza-tion and action
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