. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. h Koan, King of the River Nation . . 254 Ho Nee Yeath Tan No Ron 255 Map, Place of the Wreck 378 Schuyler and the Indian Scouts 280 A Wampum Peace Belt 291 Treaty Symbols 293 INTRODUCTION A MONOGRAPH on the subject of tlie Indian warsduring the reigns of King William III. and Queen Annewas a favorite projectwith my father, SamuelG. Drake, for which hegathered a mass of ma-terials in manuscript, butdid not live to see real-ized. With the aid ofthese, and other contem-porary accounts, thepresent volume has be
. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. h Koan, King of the River Nation . . 254 Ho Nee Yeath Tan No Ron 255 Map, Place of the Wreck 378 Schuyler and the Indian Scouts 280 A Wampum Peace Belt 291 Treaty Symbols 293 INTRODUCTION A MONOGRAPH on the subject of tlie Indian warsduring the reigns of King William III. and Queen Annewas a favorite projectwith my father, SamuelG. Drake, for which hegathered a mass of ma-terials in manuscript, butdid not live to see real-ized. With the aid ofthese, and other contem-porary accounts, thepresent volume has beenwritten. Although told more orless fully in all the gen-eral histories, the storyis nowhere connectedlytold, but is broken offwhenever other features of the general subject demand a hearing. This methodnot only breaks the thread, but also the force of thestory, which is much more satisfactorily followed in acompact form. A twenty years war, practically continuous, wouldcertainly constitute a critical period in the history ofany people, but to one only just beginning to take firm. KING WILLIAM III. 2 THE BORDER WARS OF NEW ENGLAND root in the soil, and to streffla out a few feeble brancnesinto the wilderness, it was really a question of life ordeath. It was the strategy of the enraged enemy to lopoff these branches and thus prevent the growth of, if notfinally kill, the tree itself. At the breaking out of these wars, the New Englandfrontier practically extended from the Hudson to thePenobscot, or from Albany to Pemaquid ; and while therivers flowing southward to the sea, through the Eng-lish settlements, were always so many avenues of dangerto be watched, this whole extent of country was open toan enemy who needed nothing but the sun, moon, orstars to guide him. To guard this long frontier wasimpossible. To block up the mohths of the rivers withforts, isolated from all support, was equally idle, as wasproved by the utter failure of every such attempt. Here-in lay the weakness
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