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tress, James fled into France for protection. 

 Lewis XIV. avowed his cause, and afforded 

 him assistance in his endeavors to recover his 

 throne. These events, according to all the E\i- 

 ropean customs and maxims, could not fail of 

 producing hostility and war between England 

 and France. 



It was the fate of the colonies at that time, 

 not to partake m\ich in the prosperities, but to 

 be involved in all the misfortunes and quarrels 

 of their parent. states. No sooner had England 

 and France plunged themselves into all the ca- 

 lamities and distresses of war, by the vices and 

 follies of one of their worthless kings, than all 

 the people in their colonies must share the same 

 fate, and be involved in the same pursuits and 

 sufferings. And the time v/as now come in 

 which both the French and the English colonies 

 were destined, not only to carry on a war with 

 nations of barbarous natives ; but to become 

 parties and sufferers in all the quarrels of more 

 cautious, but equally capricious European sov- 

 ereigns. 



M. De Callieres, seems at that time to have 

 had the management of their military affairs, in 

 Canada. Of an active disposition, and sound 

 judgment, he concluded that the surest way to 

 subdue the live nations would be, to effect the 

 conquest of the province of Newyork. The 

 plan tliat he proposed was to attack the city of 

 Newyork by sea, and that a large body of Cana- 

 dians and Indians should march by the way of 

 Sorel and lake Champlain, to take Albany. In 

 pursuance of this plan he went to France in 

 1688, and presented a memorial to the French 



