CHAPTER XII. 



1690. 



MASSACHUSETTS ATTACKS QUEBEC. 



English Schemes. — Capture of Port Royal. — Acadia reduced. 

 — Conduct of Phips. — His History and Character. — Boston 

 in Arms. — A Puritan Crusade. — The March from Albany. — 

 Frontenac and the Council. — Frontenac at Montreal. — 

 His War Dance. — An Abortive Expedition. — An English 

 Raid. — Frontenac at Quebec. — Defences of the Town. — 

 The Enemy arrives. 



When Frontenac sent his war-parties against 

 New York and New England, it was in the hope 

 not only of reanimating the Canadians, but also of 

 teaching the Iroquois that they could' not safely 

 rely on English aid, and of inciting the Abenakis 

 to renew their attacks on the border settlements. 

 He imagined, too, that the British colonies could 

 be chastised into prudence and taught a policy of 

 conciliation towards their Canadian neighbors ; but 

 he mistook the character of these bold and vigor- 

 ous though not martial communities. The plan of 

 a combined attack on Canada seems to have been 

 first proposed by the Iroquois ; and New York and 

 the several governments of New England, smart- 

 ing under French and Indian attacks, hastened to 

 embrace it. Early in May, a congress of their 

 delegates was held in the city of New York. It 



