The Pine-tree coast . ine grove atits easterly side. This gully probably figured in theattack, to the disadvantage of the garrison, which stoodwithin a gunshot of it. The defence of this lonely frontier post is one of themost notable events in the annals of Indian warfare. Theconditions were nowise different from those under which other garrisons hadfallen, except that the man who defended this one was a soldier, every in(;h ofhim. We have all the more reason to regret the disappearance of every vestigeof the ancient structure,against which the wavesof fire and blood dashedthemselves in vain.
The Pine-tree coast . ine grove atits easterly side. This gully probably figured in theattack, to the disadvantage of the garrison, which stoodwithin a gunshot of it. The defence of this lonely frontier post is one of themost notable events in the annals of Indian warfare. Theconditions were nowise different from those under which other garrisons hadfallen, except that the man who defended this one was a soldier, every in(;h ofhim. We have all the more reason to regret the disappearance of every vestigeof the ancient structure,against which the wavesof fire and blood dashedthemselves in vain. It was in June, 1G91,that Captain James Con-verse was posted inStorers garrison withthirty-five or forty sol-diers, part of whom hadbut just joined him,when the chief, Moxus,assaulted it at the headof two hundred war-riors, expecting an easyconquest. The assault was bravely repulsed, and Moxus drew off, swearing to be revenged. WhenMadockawando, the Penobscot chief, heard of it, he laughed loudly. So, said — \»lW ; A FLANKER. 80 THE PINE-TREE COAST. the chief, my brother Moxus has missed it now; but next year Ill go myselfand have the dog Converse out of his den. Madockawando made good his threat in part by coming the next June, atthe head of four or five hundred Avarriors, as he had said he would. Moxus andEgeremet were with him. The Canadian partisan Portneuf, and the BaronSaint Castin, who was by birth a gentleman, and a savage from choice, alsomarched with the Indians to this encounter, which one and all made no doubtof ending victoriously. To oppose this onslaught. Conversecould muster but fifteen regular soldiersof the garrison, to whom, if Ave should add such of the inhabitants as hadsought safety in the thick walls and stout arms of their little fortress, the de-fenders could still count themselves but a for them, however, two sloops arrivedon the 9th, Avith fourteen soldiers more, bringingup the garrisons complement of men to twenty-
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