The picturesque StLawrence . terrible assailants,clad in steel and armed with thunderbolts ranup to the barricade and shot death among thosewithin, the defenders were overcome with every report they fell flat on the ground, andthe allies quickly tore an opening in the barricadeand the fight was soon over. All the band werekilled and scalped except fifteen who were madeprisoners and kept to be carried to the Indianvillages where they would be put to death bythe women and girls with all the tortures thattheir savage ingenuity could invent. To cele-brate the victory the body of one of t
The picturesque StLawrence . terrible assailants,clad in steel and armed with thunderbolts ranup to the barricade and shot death among thosewithin, the defenders were overcome with every report they fell flat on the ground, andthe allies quickly tore an opening in the barricadeand the fight was soon over. All the band werekilled and scalped except fifteen who were madeprisoners and kept to be carried to the Indianvillages where they would be put to death bythe women and girls with all the tortures thattheir savage ingenuity could invent. To cele-brate the victory the body of one of the slain Iro-quois was quartered and eaten, and there wasmuch dancing and singing. Then the canoeswere loaded, camp was broken and the victors setout triumphantly for home. As time went on and the numbers of theEuropeans in the New World increased, therival interests of the French and English madethe Lake Champlain thoroughfare of vital im-portance. The advantage of gaining fullmastery of it early became evident, and it was. A Lake Champlain ferryboat The Richelieu and Lake Champlain 133 not long left without the protection of armedgarrisons. In 1664 Fort Chambly, named afterits builder, was erected at the foot of the rapids onthe Richelieu, only a thirteen-mile portage fromthe St. Lawrence near Montreal. It was over thisancient portage that the first Canadian railway,begun in 1832, was constructed. At Chambly there is still a carefully preservedruin of a stone fortress built in those long-gonetimes. Its outer walls are for the most partsturdily complete, and it stands in apparentguard over the waterway, at the foot of therapids, just as of yore. An interesting touch ofsavage romance was imparted to the place,when I was there, by my finding within a fewrods of the fort the stone head of a knows what barbaric deeds had been donewith that sharpened bit of stone . In 1731 the French began to intrench them-selves on the western side of Lake Champlain atwhat they called
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