The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-27

York and tine Carolinas. La Sale had made
his immortal Journey down the Mississippi
valley to the waters OF the Gull OF Mexico
the name Of his Most Christian Majesty.
The people Of Massachusetts and Maine
had recognized the title OF William and mary
and with more zeal than discretion had drlv,
en- Sir Edmund Andross from power ana
were active in overthrowing all the good ei-
fects Of his measures for their defence
against the French and Indians In his re-
port to the committee for Trade and Planta-
tions which was received in London In April
1890 he writes shat the new council In Mas
sachusetts under Governor Bradstreet gave
orders for the withdrawal OF the forces from
Pemaquid and other garrisons and places In
the eastern parts: that the indians were en-
couraged and enabled to renew and pursue
the war and by the assistance Of the French
who have been seen among them
increased their number: that In short time
several hundred Of their majestles' subjects
were killed or carried away captive, the fort
at Pemaquid taken, the whole country OF
Of Maine and that part Of the Province Of
New Hampshire destroyed and deserted"
The military state Of the Provinces OF
Maine and New Hampshire was about as
bad as 1t could have been. Indifference on
the part Of the Massachusetts, Governor and
Council to the military necessities Of the
frontier, involving criminal neglect In pro-
vlding rations, clothing, camp equipage. ord
risons, ineficlency in the Commissioned
officers, insubordlnation and ignorance In
the soldiery all made the success Of Tron-
tinac foregone conclusion. 1t Is hardly to
be doubted that his plans were materially
changed on his arrival for he found 1t neces-
sary TO drive the Ir0qu0is from Montreal and
secure the safety OF his own people against
them. Early in 1890 three expeditions were
sent out TO strike at the English settlements.
The right column consisting Of one hundred
and ten French troops under command Of
Manet, with st. Helena and Iberville, two
sons Of Charles LeMoyne In charge Of the
Indian contingent, marched from Montreal
through the snow and attacked Schenectady
on the eighth Of February, killing sixty pe0-
pie and ravaging the country. The centre
column, consisting OF twenty-f0ur French
soldiers and twenty-five Indians, under COM
mand Of Francois Herteb left Three Rivers
on the twenty-eightn Of January and ar
rived at Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, on
the twenty-seventh OF March. The town
was attacked atdaylight, partially destroyed
and many OF the inhabitants murdered and
carried into captivity. Hertel Withdrew on
learning that help to Salmon Falls was COM
ing from Portsmouth, and made his way TO
the Kennebec to join his force TO that Of the
Count de P0rtneuf, who commanded the left
column, then on It's way 10 attack Fort
Loyal. This command consisted Of fifty
French soldiers and fifty Abenaki Indians
from the Mission,of st. Francis In the Prov
inee Of Quebec. They left Quebec In Jan
uary, arriving In Casco Ray on the eleventh
or twelfth of May. On the etwelfth Of MAY
two Englishmen were captured In the bay,
one Of whom was killed and the other car
ried off. On the same day Captain Sylvanus
Davis reported TO the Governor and Council
Of Massachusetts the detection of Captain
Simon Willard and some Of his men, who, In
the face Of the enemy, fled from Casco to
Boston on a wretched pretenee. In the
meantime the Count de Portneuf had con-
centrated his forces on the Islands In the
harbor, and on the night Of the fifteenth Of
May landed on the north end Of the penin-
sula In Indian Cove at the foot Of Munjoy's
Hill. Their lines were deployed In the tim
Der, north Of Queen, now Congress street
facing to the southeast. The force amounted
10 about four hundred men in all, POrtneuf
In command with his fifty Frenchmen and
fifty Abenakis, Hertel with his twenty-three
Frenchmen lone having been captured at
Salmon River and twenty-five Abenakis and
the Baron de Castine with his contingent
from Pentagoet, led by Madockawando
aSs and Hopego;od; The lighting strength Of
seventy men. At noon on the sixteenth |
thirty men under command Of Lietenant |
Clark made s0rtie in the direction of the /
Lawrence garrison house ON Munjoy's Hill, |
who made their way, all OF them wounded, |
back to the fort. On the night Of the six |
teenth all the people who were In the four /
garrison houses retreated to the fort, which |
WAS SOON completely lnVesteu.Ine enemy set |
fire to the buildings in the town and ran a |
trench towards the walls for the purpose Of |
setting fire to the st0ckades. When the |
trench was completed they filled a cart with
combustibles, ran It close to the walls and
set fire to it. This damper led TO a parley,
which resulted in the surrender Of the garri-
son on the 20th Of May. on condition Of safe
conduct to the nearest English town. The
terms were made with Portneuf, and were
ignored as soon as made. The Indians
oil xuf u~1 80
About five Of the garrison, including Capt.
Davis and two daughters of Lieut.. Clark, |
were ultimately exchanged. The story Of |
the siege, taken from the French archieves, |
spiked. the stores burned, and all
the inmates made prisoners. The In. /
dians retained majority Of them"
One Of the singular features Of this en-
gagement is that the casualties, up to the
day Of the surrender, seem to have been un-
usually small. On the side of the French /
and Indians, the French report says that,
zone Frenehman had his arm broken by a
cannon pail aud an Indian received wound
in the thigh" On the part Of the English /
there were apparently no casualties except /
the killing Of Lieutenant Clark and his party |
ana the wounding of the five Of the same L
party who got back to the fort on the 10th.
1t is estimated that nearly two hundred peo-
pie were massacred or carried into captivity. /
Those of the other settlements fled for safe
ty to the more secure towns OF New Hamp-
shire.
The garrison. which at the time held Pur-
pooduc or Spring Point. retreated with those
of Spurwink and Scarborough to Saco. In /
the autumn Of 1890. while on an expedition
against the Ameriscoggins, Mayor Church
landed five companies OF English soldiers |
and friendly Indians at Spring Point, the |
present site of Fort Preble. He was attacked /
by Indians at daylight on Sunday, Septem-
Der q, and after sharp tight repulsed them |
with loss to his force of seven killed and |
twenty-four wounded.
1t is supposed that the fight took place on |
the swampy ground lying between Fort Pre- |
BILE and Cushings Point
The armament of Fort Loyal was left In |
the ruins Of the work when the French and |
Indians quit the place. In August, 1892. Sir |
William Phipps with force Of four hundred |
and fifty soldiers under command OF Mayor /
Church, sailed from Boston for Pemaquid /
where he began the construction Of Fort /
William Henry. On his way up he stopped /
at Falmouth, buried the whitened bones Of
the victims of the massacre and took the /
guns with him to fern part Of the arma-
ment for the new fort at Pemaquld.
FORT NEW cAsCo.
After the people Of Maine had become
reasonably assured Of security on the nego-
tiation Of the treaty of Mare Point. In Janu.
airy, 1863. they returned to Casco Bay and
began new settlement near the mouth Of
L0b bIIcoulupSCOb IlNch'
Alta point about three miles northeast Of /
the old location of Fort Loyal, and four |
miles nearly due north of Spring Point, a
fort was constructed in 100, under direction |
of Col. Romer, military engineer OF the /
Provincial government. 1t was known as
New Casco fort
This work was built on four sides Of |
square, each SIDE being fifty feet In length. |
Small bastions were placed In the Northwest |
and Southeast corners, and high sentry boxes |
overlooking the surrounding country In the
Northeast and Southwest corners. The
whole was surrounded by stockade. About
100 feet Southeast OF the fort was the we'll
on which the garrison depended for water,
the avenue to which was also secured by a
line Of stockade on each side. The area en-
closed by the work. exclusive OF that OF the
bastions and sentry boxes, was 900 feet.
The faces of the bastions were 80 feet long.
The little fort justified the propriety OF It's |
construction when Queen Annes war was
begun, in 1908. 1t was then the utmost IRON
tier of the English on the East. The French
and Indians, 500 strong, under command OF /
the Sieur de Beaubussin, laid siege 10 u Tor /
several days In August OF that year. The /
settlers had found safety within its walls. |
The post was commanded by Major March, |
who had an effective force Of So men, which |
he divided into three reliefs Of IL each. |
Their defence was so bravely conducted that |
the French commander was forced to begin |
regular approaches, which were interrupted |
by the timely arrival from Boston Of Capt. +!
Southack, In an English man-Of-war In the |
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