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Book Title: The Maine Book

French and Indian Wars (1675 - 1676).

For almost a century the northern American Colonies
experienced all the horrors of savage warfare incident
to the desperate struggle for supremacy between France
and England. The "brunt" fell upon Maine, the vast
frontier and flying-buttress of New England, -- her
soil the battle ground and her sons the vanguard.
Within her boundaries at the conclusion of the King
Philip's war where only five settlements and such was
the drain upon her during the succeeding wars that
there was not left at home one man to a family. 

The fleet which took Port Royal was chiefly manned in
Maine and commanded by her distinguished son, Sir
William Phips. The famous siege of Louisburg was
commanded by William Pepperell of Kittery, afterwards
knighted for his success in this expedition, and at
least a third of the entire besieging force was
recruited from the Province of Maine. Many of the men
who served at Louisburg served also in the armies that
a few years later at Lake George drove the advancing
French forces back to their strongholds on the St.
Lawrence, to be finally overcome by Wolfe on the
Plains of Abraham.

Additional Comments:
The Maine Book, by Henry E. Dunnack, Librarian of Maine State Library. Augusta, 
Maine 1920. pages 3-8. 

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