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  HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
  

  

  tant 
  clime 
  to 
  cultivate 
  lands, 
  the 
  proprietors 
  of 
  which 
  

   remained 
  behind. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  a 
  fatal 
  error 
  that 
  the 
  plantations 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  

   established 
  nearer 
  together 
  for 
  mutual 
  protection. 
  As 
  

   Marbois 
  remarks, 
  the 
  colonists 
  feeling 
  free 
  from 
  restraint 
  

   settled 
  wherever 
  fancy 
  or 
  hope 
  conducted 
  them, 
  indifferent 
  

   even 
  to 
  the 
  sanction 
  of 
  a 
  grant 
  to 
  secure 
  their 
  possessions 
  ; 
  

   they 
  scattered 
  themselves 
  among 
  the 
  natives, 
  and 
  taking 
  

   the 
  Indian 
  women 
  for 
  wives, 
  were 
  cordially 
  received, 
  and 
  

   by 
  right 
  incorporated 
  into 
  the 
  tribe. 
  

  

  In 
  June, 
  1718, 
  De 
  la 
  Housaye 
  and 
  Scouvion, 
  with 
  

   their 
  followers, 
  eighty-two 
  in 
  number, 
  settled 
  upon 
  the 
  

   Yazoo. 
  Of 
  the 
  emigrants 
  of 
  1720, 
  three 
  hundred 
  were 
  

   destined 
  for 
  Natchez, 
  and 
  three 
  hundred 
  and 
  ninety 
  for 
  

   the 
  Yazoo. 
  

  

  Three 
  hundred 
  colonists 
  arrived 
  in 
  1721, 
  for 
  the 
  lands 
  

   of 
  Madame 
  de 
  Chaumont, 
  at 
  Pascagoula. 
  

  

  In 
  1719, 
  Bigart 
  had 
  been 
  sent 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  detachment 
  

   to 
  the 
  Yazoo 
  River, 
  where 
  he 
  built 
  Fort 
  St. 
  Peter's. 
  War 
  

   having 
  broken 
  out 
  between 
  France 
  and 
  Spain 
  the 
  same 
  

   year, 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  the 
  colonists 
  was 
  mainly 
  directed 
  

   to 
  attacks 
  upon 
  the 
  Spanish 
  possessions. 
  Pensacola 
  was 
  

   taken 
  without 
  resistance, 
  but 
  was 
  surrendered 
  again 
  

   in 
  August 
  to 
  a 
  force 
  sent 
  from 
  Havana 
  to 
  retake 
  it. 
  

   Three 
  ships 
  of 
  the 
  line 
  arriving 
  on 
  the 
  1st 
  of 
  September, 
  

   the 
  place 
  was 
  again 
  taken 
  by 
  the 
  French 
  with 
  the 
  Spanish 
  

   shipping 
  and 
  eighteen 
  hundred 
  prisoners. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  summer 
  and 
  fall 
  of 
  1720, 
  Beaumanoir 
  brought 
  

   over 
  sixty 
  settlers 
  to 
  the 
  grant 
  on 
  the 
  St. 
  Catharine's. 
  

   In 
  May, 
  1720, 
  after 
  a 
  brief 
  existence 
  of 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  

   two 
  years, 
  the 
  Royal 
  Bank 
  established 
  by 
  Law, 
  and 
  with 
  

   which 
  the 
  company 
  was 
  intimately 
  connected, 
  failed; 
  

   and 
  in 
  December, 
  Law 
  was 
  compelled 
  to 
  fly 
  from 
  France, 
  

  

  