compelled a return.

In

the meantime, Quebec had been strengthened by the French, and bade defiance to the English fleet, which soon returned to Boston.

In 1691, Colonel Sloughter was appointed governor of the province, and, immediately on his arrival, Governor Leisler and his son-in-law Milborne, were arrested and executed for treason. This, with the renewing of the covenant chain with the Iroquois^ was the only act of his administration, death having sud denly ended his career.

His successor was Benjamin Fletcher,

under whom, in the succeeding year, the English, with their Indian allies, carried on the war against the French, Capt. John Schuyler making a successful attack on the French settlements beyond Lake Champlain. In February, 1693, Frontenac in

vaded the Mohawk territory, surprised and burned their castles, took three hundred prisoners. The invasion cost the invaders thirty men, but the Mohawks were

killed ma.ny and

completely

dispersed.

The forces at Albany, accompanied by such Mahicans as could be

retreating

rallied,

hastened to their

relief,

enemy and recovered most of the

pursued the

prisoners.

Go

vernor Fletcher reached Albany soon after, and so pleased were the stricken chiefs at the celerity of his movements that they gave to him the flattering title of Lord of the Great Swift

Arrow. 1

THE INDIAN TRIBES

The tide of war then rolled along the frontiers of

New England, and the settlements at Oyster river in New Hampshire, and Haverhill in Massachusetts, were destroyed, Hatfield and Deerfield, on the Connecticut, shared the same fate. In 1696, Frontenac invaded the territory of the Onondagas, but without much success, 2 while Indians in detached bands warred for the respective powers with which In they were in alliance! the year following the war terminated in September, by the peace