Wars Within Wars - The Great Peace

American Political History · Jul 23, 2022 · 21m

In October 1690, a Boston man stood blindfolded before the governor of New France and gave him one hour to surrender Canada — to an army that belonged not to England, but to a single colony. This is the story of the first time the American colonies fought a war handed to them from across an ocean, and what it revealed about them. King William’s War and Queen Anne’s War fell on a sprawling, quarrelsome English America that outnumbered New France fifteen to one and could never once agree to act as one. It is a story of frontier towns burned in the snow, of Jacob Leisler hanged in New York, of a…