. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. ilt on a hill-top,mounted with heavy cannon and garrisoned by regulartroops, was to be taken either by siege or England Here was no question of mere bush fight-miiitia. j^g^ sucli as the rustic New England sol- diery had been used to. The best soldiers were nonetoo good for this sort of work. It is no less to thecredit of the provincial militia that they were ready toundertake the unusual task with some confidence. Yetwe find certain fastidious critics speaking of the rankand file as if nothing
. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. ilt on a hill-top,mounted with heavy cannon and garrisoned by regulartroops, was to be taken either by siege or England Here was no question of mere bush fight-miiitia. j^g^ sucli as the rustic New England sol- diery had been used to. The best soldiers were nonetoo good for this sort of work. It is no less to thecredit of the provincial militia that they were ready toundertake the unusual task with some confidence. Yetwe find certain fastidious critics speaking of the rankand file as if nothing but failure was to be expected,when, as a matter of fact, the material was preciselythe same as that which won Louisburg and defendedBunker HilL 1707] FUTILE SIEGE OF PORT ROYAL 227 Two full regiments were raised in Massachusetts,New Hampshire, and Ehode Island.^ Colonel FrancisWainwright, of Ipswich, commanded one, and ColonelWinthrop Hilton, of Exeter, the other. Colonel March,an excellent partisan officer, whose brilliant defence ofCasco had won for him the place formerly held by. COLONEL FRANCIS WAIKWRIGHTS HOUSE, IPSWICH, MASS. Church in the public estimation, was put in chief com-mand. The two regiments mustered 1,076 officers andmen ; and there was also a small artillery Make=up of ex=corps, in charge of Colonel Eedknap,^ an p^^** Enghsh engineer, which with supernumeraries broughtthe whole number up to 1,150 officers and men. Will- 1 RHODE ISLAND furnished eighty men. She was alive to the fact that her commercewas suffering from the depredations of French corsairs. See what Subercase says at theend of this chapter. Connecticut declined to furnish any men, Winthrop makmg somevery lame excuses. There was one company of Cape Cod Indians, commanded by Cap-tain Freeman, of Harwich. For the roster of the expedition see Vol. V, 3d Series,Massachusetts JTistorical Society Collections. 2 REDKNAP succeeded Wolfgang Romer, one of King Williams appointees, as siiper-vising engineer
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