CHAPTER II

A FIGHT FOR LIFE

THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR BETWEEN EARLY COLONISTS AND THE INDIANS 14

By _Thomas Wentworth Higginson_. Author of “A History of the United States.”

CHAMPLAIN’S BATTLE WITH THE IROQUOIS, 1609 27

By _Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D._

Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609, and the Conquest of the Pequots, 1637.