Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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o Louisburg. Louisburg, the principal port of the islandof Cape Breton, was at this time the strongestfortress in America, and from its secure har-bor the French were constantly despatchingprivateers against the merchant vessels andfishermen of New England. These depre-dations caused such serious loss to theeastern colonies that at length GovernorShirley proposed to the general court ofMassachusetts to undertake the capture ofLouisburg as the only means of putting astop to them, and this measure was laid bythe general court before the other colonies. Another Appeal to Arms. It was understood that no aid was to beexpected from the mother country, whichwas too busily engaged in conducting thewar in Europe, and that the colonies wouldbe obliged to depend entirely upon theipown resources for their success. Neverthe-less, the measure was popular, and the enthu-siasm of the colonists was aroused to thehighest point. Nearly all the northern col-onies had suffered severely at the hands ol tmf
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27< CRUEL MURDER OF RASLE. CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH. 27! the French and Indians, and in every ship-ping port were to be found scores of menwho had been robbed and otherwise mal-treated by the French privateers. Pennsyl-vania and New Jersey, under the influenceof the Quaker dislike of war, declined to<send troops, but furnished a fair supply ofmoney to defray their share of the expensesof the expedition; New York made a con-tribution of money and of a number ofpieces of artillery; Connecticut gave fivehundred men, and New Hampshire andRhode I -land each contributed a regimen^ Moving Against the Enemy. Massachusetts, being the most interestedin the success of the expedition by reason ofbeing the largest owner of shipping, under-took the principal part of the expense andagreed to furnish a majority of the troopsand the vessels. There was no difficulty inprocuring volunteers, but those who offeredthemselves were civilians, ignorant of militarydiscipline, and utterly

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