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the depths of the frozen forest. Anclros did what 

 he could, and left more than five hundred men in 

 garrison on the Kennebec and the Saco, at Casco 

 Bay, Pemaquid, and various other exposed points. 

 He then returned to Boston, where surprising 

 events awaited him. Early in April, news came 

 that the Prince of Orange had landed in England. 

 There was great excitement. The people of the 

 town rose against Anclros, whom they detested as 

 the agent of the despotic policy of James II. They 

 captured his two forts with their garrisons of 

 regulars, seized his frigate in the harbor, placed 

 him and his chief adherents in custody, elected a 

 council of safety, and set at its head their former 

 governor, Bradstreet, an old man of eighty-seven. 

 The change was disastrous to the eastern frontier. 

 Of the garrisons left for its protection the winter 

 before, some were partially withdrawn by the new 

 council ; while others, at the first news of the revolu- 

 tion, mutinied, seized their officers, and returned 

 home. 1 These garrisons were withdrawn or reduced, 



1 Andros, Account of Forces in Maine, in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., I. 85. 

 Compare Andros Tracts, I. 177; Ibid., II. 181, 193, 207, 213, 217; Ibid., 

 III. 232; Report of Andros in N. Y. Col. Docs., III. 722. The order for 

 the reduction of the garrisons and the return of the suspected officers 

 was passed at the first session of the council of safety, 20 April. The 

 agents of Massachusetts at London endeavored to justify it. See Andros 

 Tracts, III. 34. The only regular troops in New England were two com- 

 panies brought by Andros. Most of them were kept at Boston, though 

 a few men and officers were sent to the eastern garrison. These regulars 

 were regarded with great jealousy, and denounced as " a crew that began 

 to teach New England to Drab, Drink, Blaspheme, Curse, and Damm." 

 Ibid., II. 50. 



In their hatred of Andros, many of the people of New England held 

 the groundless and foolish belief that he was in secret collusion with the 

 French and Indians. Their most dangerous domestic enemies were some 

 of their own traders, who covertly sold arms and ammunition to the 

 Indians. 



