to “the wars of David,” Underhill adds, “We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings”; and Mason, after some exulting quotations from the Psalms, concludes: “Thus the Lord was pleased to smite our enemies in the hinder parts, and to give us their land for an inheritance!” The Indian allies admired the courage of the colonists, but they thought their method of war “too furious, and to slay too many.” SYNOPSIS OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS, CHIEFLY MILITARY, BETWEEN THE CONQUEST OF THE PEQUOTS, 1637, AND THE DEFEAT OF KING PHILIP, 1676 1638. Settlement of Rhode Island. Establishment of the Colony of New Haven. Swedes and Finns settle in Delaware. 1639. Adoption of the Connecticut Constitution. 1642. War between Charles I. and Parliament. Indecisive Battle of Edgehill. 1643. The Colonies of New England form a confederacy. 1644. Battle of Marston Moor, in which the English Royalists are defeated. Roger Williams obtains a patent from Parliament for the United Government of the Rhode Island Settlements. 1645. Defeat of the English Royalists at the Battle of Naseby. 1649. Execution of Charles I. 1653. Cromwell is made Lord Protector of England. 1655. Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherlands, dispossesses the Swedish settlers at the mouth of the Delaware. 1660. Restoration of the Stuarts in England. 1662. The Connecticut and New Haven Colonies receive a charter from Charles II. 1664. Charles II. grants the region between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers to his brother James, Duke of York. The English occupy New Amsterdam and take possession of the province of New Netherland. The Colony of New Jersey is established. 1665. The union of the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies is completed. 1668. Father Marquette founds the Mission of Sault Ste. Marie. 1670. Incorporation of the Hudson Bay Company. 1673. The Dutch occupy New York and New Jersey. 1674. New York and New Jersey are restored to the English. 1675. King Philip’s War. IV THE DEFEAT OF KING PHILIP, 1676