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iards at St. Augustine. The assembly, agreeing with the governor, appropriated a sum nearly equal to ten thousand dollars for the enterprise. An army of six hundred whites and as many Indians was raised, and in two divisions they proceeded, one by land and the other by sea, to make the attack. The governor commanded the forces on the ships, and Colonel Daniels the division that crossed the Savannah River, traversed Georgia along the coast, penetrated Florida and made the first attack. The Spaniards retired within their fort, with provisions for four months, where they were safe from harm, for their enemies had no artillery.

Soon after Daniels had invested the town, Governor Moore arrived with his vessels and troops and proceeded to blockade the harbor of St. Augustine. Daniels, having plundered that part of the town outside the stockade, was sent to Jamaica for artillery, and before his return, two Spanish war-vessels appeared and frightened away the blockaders. On his return, the colonel narrowly escaped capture; but he managed .to escape, reached Charleston in safety, and the ill-advised expedition was at an end. It cost the colony a large sum of money, and to defray the expenses bills of credit were issued to the amount of twenty-six thousand dollars, being the first issue of paper money made by South Carolinia.

Governor Moore's desire for military glory was by no means satiated, and, late in the following year, he again tried his skill. His next expedition was against some hostile Indians, who were in league with the Spaniards. The Appalachians, a Mobilian tribe, occupied a region in what is now the State of Georgia, between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers. These Indians among whom the missionaries had labored for years had always been friendly to the interests of the Spaniards. With a force competent to insure success, the governor proceeded against these Indians, desolating their villages, laying their gardens in waste, carrying eight hundred men, women and children into captivity, and making the inhabitants of the whole region vassals of the crown of England. The movement, successful as it was, proved injudicious. It planted a thorn of irritation in the sides of the surrounding Indians, which rankled there for years, and proved one of the causes which afterward spurred them into fierce hostility.

The province was just growing tranquil once more, after the termination of the war with the savages, when internal commotions began stirring up strife in its bosom. The foolish proprietors, with more church love than religion in their souls, resolved to establish the liturgy of the Church of England in South Carolinia, as the standard order

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of public worship. Sir Nathaniel Johnson, who was the official successor of Governor Moore, found a majority of churchmen in the assembly, and easily executed the wishes of his masters. Dissenters suffered persecution, were deprived of the rights of free citizens and disfranchised. son of turbulence followed, and, in 1706, they appealed to the crown. The following autumn, the assembly, by an order of Parliament, repealed the law of disfranchisement. The Anglican Church, nevertheless, maintained its supremacy in ecclesiastical affairs in the province until the War of the Revolution.

The anger of the Spaniards was roused by the attack of the South Carolinians on St. Augustine, and they resolved on revenge. An expedition of five war vessels, under command of the French admiral, Le Feboure, and a large body of troops, was sent from Havana to attack Charleston, conquer the province and annex it to the Spanish territory in Florida. When, in May, 1706, the squadron crossed Charleston bar, and about eight hundred troops were landed at different points, the commandant sent under a flag of truce to the city a peremptory order for a surrender, threatening to take the place by storm in case of a refusal to submit. The governor had been apprised of the expedition and was prepared to meet it. When the

flag arrived, he had so disposed the provincial militia and a host of Indian warriors, as to give an exaggerated idea of the strength of the Carolinians. Without giving the messenger an opportunity to make any extended observation, he was dismissed. with a defiant reply that the English were ready to repel any attack they chose to make on them.

Scarcely was the messenger gone, when the governor began to plan an assault on the Spanish troops landed. With a select party of militia and Indians, he went, under cover of night, to a suitable location for assaulting the enemy. Just at dawn a blast of trumpets sounded the assault, and a volley of musketry followed. The Spanish guards fell, and the Carolinians, with their Indian allies, dashed into the camp, shooting and cutting down or capturing all whom they found.

Many were killed, more captured, and the remnant were driven back to their ships. At the same time the provincial navy, small as it was, prepared to attack the invading squadron. The French admiral, amazed as well as alarmed at the display of valor shown, weighed anchor and fled to sea. day a French war ship with recruits, not knowing what had happened, sailed into the harbor and was captured by the colonists.

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This made the victory complete. The dark storm cloud which had threatened the destruction

of all the colony had been dissolved and all was sunshine and peace; but not for long were the colonists of South Carolinia to enjoy peace and prosperity. A more frightful tempest was brooding over the colony, which gathered with fearful celerity. A league had been formed among the surrounding Indian tribes to exterminate the English. This league was the secret work of the Spaniards in Florida, and the French in the Mississippi Valley, who were planning for the extermination of the English. Within the space of forty days a confederacy had been formed, including the whole Indian tribes from Cape Fear on the north to the St. Mary's on the south and back to the rivers beyond the mountains in the west. The warriors of the league were fully six thousand strong. It comprised the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Catawbas and Congarees on the west and the Creeks, Yammasees and Appalachians on the south. At the same time, a thousand warriors broke forth from the forests of the Neuse region to avenge their misfortunes in the war of two or three years before.

So secretly had the savages organized, that not a whisper of impending danger had reached the inhabitants of Charleston, before the news came that on the morning of Good Friday, April 13, 1715, the Yammasees had begun an indiscriminate

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