The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-13
TODAY IN HISTORY
Queen Anne's Wars.
MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1910,

When King william III, OF England
died in March. 1902. and was succeeded
by Anne, the sister OF his wife, ana
daughter OF James H., England ana
France were about to engage in war
The Iinal break came on May 10, and the
contest that followed is known In Eu-
ropean history as the war sof the span
lSh Succession. while In American history
IL is usually called queen Anne war, OF
the Second Intercolonlal war.
On one side we've France, spain ana
Bavaria; on Inc other England. tlollaho,
Savoy, Austria. Prussia, Portugal anu
Denmark, II was III tins war that the
Duke oi Marlborough won his fame
To the people oil New England war pc
| tween England and France meant MD
eouS nightmare war -Whoop, me tonia-
| hawk and scalping knife, burning nam
lets and horrible captivity. To PROVIDE
against il a conference was called 70
meet at Falmouth, on Casco Day, carry
In June. when Governor dudley OF Mas
Sachusetts met many of the chiefs oil tne
Abenaquis. The Indians, protesSlhS to
have no thought OF war. promised peace
and friendship by them accustomed
tokens But as usual only u part OF tne
tribe had been brought into the alliance,
and some lawlesS provocaton oy party
of English maraudcrs soon droye the
Indians into their ola t'rench alliance
and war was declared on June IL, li02
By August 800 French and Indians
were assembled ready for incursions into
the New England settlements; They dl-
Nlue0 INTO several DanuS ana lell upon
number OF places at the same tune.
Villages were burned. inhabitants muir
dered, and New England was nled WIN
CONSERVATION, II was finally resolved TO
fit out an expedition for retaliation. anc
as usual the people OF Acadia were Sc
lected TO eXpiate the sins OF the Indians
and Canadians.
Colonel Benjamin Church was put In
command of $50 men, fourteen transports
and thirty six whaleboats. convo&d by
three ships Of WAY Sailing from Boston
In May, 1904, Church raViShed the lesser
French settlements on the Acadian coast,
but venturcd no attack on Port Royal.
In l105 another body OF men, under SUI
bercase-soldiers. Canadians, peasants,
adventurerS and Indians, were armed ana
with rations for twenty days, blankets
and tonrs-set out to destroy the English
settlements In Newfoundland, marching
on snoWshoes.
They took Petit Havre and st, Johns
and devastated all the little settlements
along the eastern coast and the Eng
llsh trade was for the time completely
broken up. The following spring New
England sent Colonel March TO Port
Royal with two regiments, but he re-
turned without assaulting the fort, Gov
ernor Dudley forbade the troops tn land
when they came back TO Boston. and or
dered them 10 go again. Colonel Marsh
was i'll. and Colonel Wainwright took
command but after Al pretense OF be-
sleging the fort for eleven days he retired
with small loss, the expedition having
cost Massachusetts more than slO,00v.
to send large number OF Canadians and
Indians TO deVastate New England But
after long march through the almost
impossible mountain region of north
ern New Hampshire, murderous attack
on Haverhill was the Only result, In 1903
a plan was formed In England Tor the
capture of New France by a fleet OF
five regiments of British soldiers aided
by the colonists. But a defeat in Portu-
gal called away the ships destined for
America, and force gathered at Lake
Champlain under Colonel Nicholson for
land attack was so reduced by sickness
said to have resulted from the poison
Ing Of a spring by indians-that they
turUed their canoes and retreated
nished with six ships OF war: thirty tran
sports and one British and four New
England regiments for the capture OF
Port Royal. Subercase had only $50 men
and an insufficient supply OF provisions.
He surrendered after short lombard
ment. and on the 18th of October the
starving and ragged garrison marched
time the French flag was hauled down
from the fort. and Port Royal was hence
forth an English fortress, which was re
Queen Anne. With a change of masters
came change of names and Acadia was
again called Nova Scoua-the name be-
slowed upon it by James II. In 1921. and
Port Royal, Annapolis,
June 13. 1858. a treaty was signed be-
tween the United States and China and
In 1863 occurred the battle of Wjnches-
ter. Va. 1t is the date of the death |
of ST. Anthony OF Padua In 1921. 1t is |
the birthday of Francis Dana, the states |
man and jurist (i74S): Madame D'Arblay, |
the noted English novelist G7o2); Cen
eral Winfield Scott, the distinguished |
American soldier U1S6). Gustavus V.
Fox the American naval officer who
the first monitor to cross the
ocean GS2D; and Fltz-John Porter. the
soldier OF the Mexican and civil wars,
whose court martial caused much contro-
versy US22)
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