A history of the American people . 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
A history of the American people . 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. - ^4>& FRENCH HUGUENOT CHURCH, NEW YiilM against the Frenchand against the pirates of the coast. But nothing hadbeen done. Even the little that had been gained in King Will-iams War had now to be gained all over again. SirWilliam Phips had taken Port Royal very handily at theoutset of that war (1690), and Acadia with it, and therehad been no difficulty in holding the conquered prov-ince until the war ended; but the treaty of Ryswickhad handed back to the French everything the Englishhad taken, the statesmen of England hardly heedingAmerica at all in the terms they agreed to,—and so abeginning was once more to be COMMON UNDERTAKINGS The war began, as every one knew it must, withforays on the border: the Indians were the first afoot,and were more to be feared than the French. Thefirst movement of the English was made at the south,where, before the first year (1702) of the war was out,the Carolinians struck at the power of Spain in sent a little force again
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