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On March 11, the troops of the Petrograd army garrison were called out to quell the uprising. In some encounters, the regiments opened fire, killing demonstrators, but the protesters kept to the streets and the troops began to waver.
Each colony was administered by a royal governor, his council and an elective colonial assembly. The governors also controlled the troops in their colonies. These policed the towns and ports and defended the settlers from border attacks by Native Americans and the French.
Part III / Politics and Identity This page intentionally left blank C H A P T E R N I N E A Death in the Morning The Murder of DanielParke Natalie Zacek The summer of 1710was a time of great tension for the residents of the English colonies of the Leeward Islands. The governor and commander-in-chief of the Leewards, Colonel Daniel Parke, was at loggerheads with the majority of his subjects, especially those in Antigua, in whose capital, St.John's, he had his seat of government. From the moment of Parke's first appearance in the islands in 1706,when he arrived from England to take up his post,governor and governed had come into conflict.The governor wasa proud, hot-tempered man who had hoped that his close friendships with influential members of the English court and with Queen Anne would earn him a powerful and highly paid position in the colonial administration such as the governorship of his native Virginia, in which position he might wield authority in the manner of his mentor, the highly controversial Governor Edmund Andros. Instead, Parke found himself dispatched to the remote eastern edge of the West Indies, serving as the lowest paid of colonial British America's royal governors. To add to his sense of grievance, his new subjects were "People of such turbulent Spirits and Loose Principles,"whowere intensely hostile to his repeated attempts to impose order upon them and to remedywhat he sawastheir "defective and corrupt laws."1 224 Politicsand Identity For their part, the Antiguansconsidered that it was they, rather than Parke, who had been ill-used. In their eyes, from the moment of his arrival Parke did nothing but abuse, frustrate, and menace his subjects. He neglected the security of the islands in the face of the threat of an attack by the French, and used the royal troops stationed in the islands less as a bulwark against invasion than as a personal standing army. He undertook a sustained endeavor to curb the powers of the island assemblies by launching concerted efforts to prevent them from holding their sessions and by challenging their claims to long-held privileges. These chilling threats to individual and corporate security were matched by others of a more private nature. Parke allegedly entered into sexual relationships with the wives of a number of Antigua's wealthiest planters, including members of the local legislature, and when one angry husband confronted him, the governor publicly humiliated the man, then attempted to frame him for murder. Later,as Parke became aware of the depth of his unpopularity among the Antiguans,he took to walkingthe streets of St. John's at night in various disguises, leading people to believe that he was spying upon them. Bythe spring of 1709, planter patience was exhausted. Determined to defend themselves, leading activists sent William Nevin, a member of the Antiguan assembly, off to London bearing a petition to Queen Anne, which described the "highest acts of Injustice" that Parke had committed and pleaded that she remove this "Yoke of Oppression" and grant the islanders "such Reliefe as yo[ur] Ma[jes]tie shall thinke fitt. . .to afford us in these our Dismall Melancholy Circumstances."2 During the spring of 1710, news arrived in Antigua that the islanders' appeal had met with a receptive ear. On February 11, the Queen had decided that their "Complaint . . . of great Oppressions and Mai-Administration" was sufficiently serious in its nature that she ordered Parke to give up his office, leave the island, and make his way to London to answer the charges against him.3 But the Antiguans' relief was short-lived. When Parke heard the news of his recall, he simply refused to resign or depart, pledging that he would remain in the islands at his pleasure and force the inhabitants to recant their testimony against him. By early summer of 1710, as hurricane season approached the West Indies, this equally menacing political storm was brewing in Antigua, as the governor and his subjects confronted one another.As great as anticipatory tensions were, however, neither Parke nor his enemies could have imagined that the following months would see the governor lose the use of his right arm in an assassination attempt carried out by one of A Death in the Morning 225 his opponents' slaves, and that the governor would employ royal troops to break up a legislative session at bayonet point. Least of all could anyone have imagined that...
TO-DAY'S SURVEY I Trouble between Greeks and Turks The Press Association and Exchange Telegraph Co. learnlthat the report pub- lished from Jewish sources relating to Poland are believed to be exaggerated. At Vilna 64 Jews only were killed, ten in street fighting and the remainder exe- cuted for nring on Polish soldiers. Further trouble has brokien out between the Greeks and the Turks in Asia Minor, and the revolt of the Moslem population against the Greeks is feared, although the Amir of Afghanistan is stated to have ordered a cessation of hostilities. Recruiting for the Afghanistan Army continues. Russian and Hungarian correspondents have been invited to Afghanistan. All Allied Missions have been with- drawn from Riga, owing to the attitude of the Germans there. German troops are threatening the Baltic Landweihr against the Esthonians. Deniken's advance in South Russia is 1 threatening tLv DolabL.Vilsts, tou,uanict- tions in the Crimea, and fetay lead to the I evacuation of the Crimea by the Bolshe- vists.