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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt:... an ambuscade was arranged. On touching the shore, springing suddenly from their covert, the tall-grown forests far and near echoing the fatal death-cry, the Indians poured on March and his men a shower of leaden hail, whose fire flashed the white man's death-welcome on every side. But the undaunted March immediately rallied his wavering troops, and led them to the charge in the face of the murderous fire. With fixed bayonets his men plunged into the thickets, routing the savages at every point, who retreated to the woods and to their canoes, leaving their dead behind them! It was "a bloody and desperate encounter. Twenty-five men lay dead or wounded in their track at the place of debarkation, showing the unerring certainty with which each warrior marked his man, while the gory body of the fallen brave, torn by the white man's steel, was left to the gaze of his foe, in attestation of the terrific death-struggle by which the intrepid March and his devoted band had won the day. The battle of the Damariscotta closed the scenes of King William's war, during which want and famine had multiplied the horrors of the desolation. "Many,1 both Indians and English prisoners, were starved to death: "--"and some eating their dogs and cats, died horribly 9 famished." The peace of Ryswick hushed the voice of war, and gave promise of tranquility to the contending Sept. 11. nations. As the songs of peace began to be heard amid the wilds of the " Ancient Dominions of Maine," projected treaty engagements were renewed to quiet the remnants of the savage race. Public measures for assuring safety to the frontiers were not abated. Garrisons, stockade forts, fortified houses constructed of massive timber, bulletproof with flankers jutting from opposite angles, now...