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It depicts the July 30th battle between Iroquois and Algonquian| tribes near the southern end of Lake Champlain, possibly near the site where Fort Ticonderoga

of 1609, Samuel de Champlain, with two other Frenchmen, joineda party of Hurons and Algonkins in an expedition against the Iroquois.their hereditary enemies

North America. In all human proba-bility the breach between Frenchmen and Iroquois would inany case have come very soon ; it is difficult to see whatcould

Iroquois, the colonists agreed f/oi.fu o^^s!to do so. Consequently, the French, together with the ^^^^Algonquins, attacked and defeated the Iroquois on

Frontenac occupies the site of the old French chateau of St. Louis erected by Champlain in 1620. Then there are the fine Roman Catholic Cathedral ; the Hotel