A history of the American people . ^ as James before him had done;giving to the governors of the principal colonies theright to command the military forces of the colonies. .AN cF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, 732 about them even if he gave them no other large gift ofpower. He did more than James had done. Being astatesman and knowing the value of systematic admin-istration, he did systematically what James had doneloosely and without consistent plan. The Board fTrade and Plantations, which he organized to overseeand direct the government of the colonies, did more tokeep their affairs under the
A history of the American people . ^ as James before him had done;giving to the governors of the principal colonies theright to command the military forces of the colonies. .AN cF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, 732 about them even if he gave them no other large gift ofpower. He did more than James had done. Being astatesman and knowing the value of systematic admin-istration, he did systematically what James had doneloosely and without consistent plan. The Board fTrade and Plantations, which he organized to overseeand direct the government of the colonies, did more tokeep their affairs under the eye and hand of the King3 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE than any group of Jamess ministers had been able todo. The great Dutch King was determined to wieldEngland and her possessions as a single imperial powerin the game of politics he was playing in Europe. The French power, which he chiefly feared, had reallygrown very menacing in America; was growing moreso every year; and must very soon indeed he faced andovercome, if the English were not to be shut in to anarrow seaboard, or ousted altogether. It was not aquestion of numbers. It was a question of ter
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