ndian
Population.--The Firebrands of the West.--Detroit in
1712.--Dangerous Visitors.--Suspense.--Timely
Succors.--The Outagamies attacked: their Desperate
Position.--Overtures.--Wavering Allies.--Conduct of
Dubuisson.--Escape of the Outagamies.--Pursuit and
Attack.--Victory and Carnage 272

CHAPTER XIII.

1697-1750.

LOUISIANA.

The Mississippi to be occupied.--English
Rivalry.--Iberville.--Bienville.--Huguenots.--Views of
Louis XIV.--Wives for the Colony.--Slaves.--La
Mothe-Cadillac.--Paternal Government.--Crozat's
Monopoly.--Factions.--The Mississippi Company.--New
Orleans.--The Bubble bursts.--Indian Wars.--The Colony firmly
established.--The two Heads of New France 298

CHAPTER XIV.

1700-1732.

THE OUTAGAMIE WAR.

The Western Posts.--Detroit.--The Illinois.--Perils of the
West.--The Outagamies.--Their Turbulence.--English
Instigation.--Louvigny's Expedition.--Defeat of
Outagamies.--Hostilities renewed.--Lignery's
Expedition.--Outagamies attacked by Villiers; by Hurons and
Iroquois.--La Butte des Morts.--The Sacs and Foxes 326

CHAPTER XV.

1697-1741.

FRANCE IN THE FAR WEST.

French Explorers.--Le Sueur on the St. Peter.--Canadians
on the Missouri.--Juchereau de Saint-Denis.--Benard de la
Harpe on Red River.--Adventures of Du Tisne.--Bourgmont
visits the Comanches.--The Brothers Mallet in Colorado
and New Mexico.--Fabry de la Bruyere 346

CHAPTER I.

1700-1713.

EVE OF WAR.

The Spanish Succession.--Influence of Louis XIV. on History.--French
Schemes of Conquest in America.--New York.--Unfitness of the Colonies
for War.--The Five Nations.--Doubt and Vacillation.--The Western
Indians.--Trade and Politics.

The war which in the British colonies was called Queen Anne's War, and
in England the War of the Spanish Succession, was the second of a series
of four conflicts which ended in giving to Great Britain a maritime and
colonial preponderance over France and Spain. So far as concerns the
colonies and the sea, these several wars may be regarded as a single
protracted one, broken by intervals of truce. The three earlier of them,
it is true, were European contests, begun and waged on European
disputes. Their American part was incidental and apparently subordinate,
yet it involved questions of prime importance in t