Engraving based on a drawing by Champlain of his 1609 voyage. It depicts a battle between Iroquois and Algonquian tribes near Lake Champlain
A century of brutal warfare raged between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French colonists. In support of his Huron and Algonkian trading partners, Samuel de Champlain shot and killed two Iroquois chiefs in 1609 at Ticonderoga, near the lake that now bears his name.
Sigh. The colonists wreaked a lot of damage. The world over.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it feels like human history is just one @#$(*&^$% war after another.
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DeleteChamplain started the war when he killed the two chiefs.
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