The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars . cut out for liini Avithalacrity. After seciug tbiugs iu traiu here, Nicholsonaud Vetch weut round to New York by water, callingat Newport aud New Haven on their way, in order tohast(>n umtters to the utmost. Finding everythhig working to theirwishes, they contin-ued their voyage toNew York. Here they weredoomed to meet York, indeed,no longer hesitatedto cast off the tram-mels of a quasi-neu-trality, and throwher whole weight in-to the contest. Wellshe might. Subju-gated Canada would
The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars . cut out for liini Avithalacrity. After seciug tbiugs iu traiu here, Nicholsonaud Vetch weut round to New York by water, callingat Newport aud New Haven on their way, in order tohast(>n umtters to the utmost. Finding everythhig working to theirwishes, they contin-ued their voyage toNew York. Here they weredoomed to meet York, indeed,no longer hesitatedto cast off the tram-mels of a quasi-neu-trality, and throwher whole weight in-to the contest. Wellshe might. Subju-gated Canada woulddivert the Indiantrade of the greatNorthwest fromMontreal and Que-bec, to Albany and New York. With New Jersey andPennsylvania it was different. Eecently settled, largelyby Quakers, w^ho abhorred the very nameof war, the former colony would vote onlya money grant of £3,000, while the latterrefused aid of any sort. The loss of men in this quarterwas, however, made good, in part, by six hundred Iroquois 1 Ab the treasury was empty, New York for the firBt time issued bills of TEE TEE NEEN HO GA RON, EMPEROR OF THESIX NATIONS. Pennsylvaniaand New Jerseyhold back. 1700-1710] INVASION OF CANADA FAILS 253 Avjiiiiors, whose wives aud childreu were maiutaiued atthe public expense dimng the campaign. Nicholson wasput in command of this force, reckoned at 1,5U0 men,which took up its line of march for Lake Army at Chaniplain, roads and buildinj^ Wood Creek,forts as it slowly advanced over groimd destined to be-come the scene of far more momentous events in thefuture. At AVood Creek the army halted to Avait fornews of the sailingof the other branchof the expedition,before resuming itsforward movementupon Montreal. Meanwhile, thetransports andtroops assembled atBoston lay waitingfrom May to Sep-tember, in daily ex-pectation of the ar-rival of the prom-ised squadron andregiments Royal aidout of ***• England. They wait-ed in vain. It wasnot until Octoberthat a ship arrived
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