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Iroquois War (1609) Engraving based on a drawing by Champlain of his 1609 voyage. It depicts a battle between Iroquois and Algonquian tribes near Lake Champlain. Enlarged detail from the center of the engraving "Deffaite des Yroquois au Lac de Champlain," from Champlain's Voyages (1613).
Map of Lake Champlain, from Fort de Chambly up to Fort St-Fréderic in New France. Account by Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635) of his travels and adventures. Champlain was a tireless explorer and although not a noble, de facto governor of New France.
After a failed peace treaty negotiated by Chief Canaqueese, Iroquois moved north into New France along Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River, attacking and blockading Montreal. By 1650, they controlled the area from the Virginia Colony in the south up to the St. Lawrence.
11 wrz 2023 · The Battle of Lake Champlain was fought at Lake Champlain on July 22, 1609. It was the first battle of the Beaver Wars and the first time Native American Indians living in the region experienced European firearms.
Champlain and Mohawk Frontiers, 1609–1763. Map of A map of the Lake Champlain region and Mohawk frontiers during the period between the battle of Samuel Champlain against the Iroquois in 1609 near Crown Point and Ticonderoga, and the end of the French and Indian War in 1763.
7 lut 2006 · On 30 July 1609, armed with his harquebus, Champlain killed three Mohawk chiefs. The battle ensured the enmity of the Iroquois Confederacy. Champlain's drawing is fanciful in detail (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/C-5750).
Three hundred and forty years ago (July 29, 1609), a battle of far more consequence to the nation than Saratoga or Gettysburg was fought on the shores of Lake Champlain, near Ticonderoga. Only three white men took part in it, and histories scarcely mention it, yet it was one of the decisive battles of the world.
