History of the United States . onists contributed largelyto their final overthrow in the New World. Urged by the Algon-quin Indians to join them in an attack against their The Frenchtraditional enemies, the Iroquois, the colonists agreed o^^s!to do so. Consequently, the French, together with the ^^^^Algonquins, attacked and defeated the Iroquois on the shores ofLake Champlain in the summer of 1609; and not only broughtagainst themselves the animosity of the Five Nations of In-dians to the south of them, but made the Iroquois tribes for onehundred years the allies of the Dutch and the E
History of the United States . onists contributed largelyto their final overthrow in the New World. Urged by the Algon-quin Indians to join them in an attack against their The Frenchtraditional enemies, the Iroquois, the colonists agreed o^^s!to do so. Consequently, the French, together with the ^^^^Algonquins, attacked and defeated the Iroquois on the shores ofLake Champlain in the summer of 1609; and not only broughtagainst themselves the animosity of the Five Nations of In-dians to the south of them, but made the Iroquois tribes for onehundred years the allies of the Dutch and the English. In con-sequence, the Iroquois kept the French almost wholly out of5 65 66 STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF NORTH AMERICA New York, and compelled them to follow a western route togain access to the interior of the country. In the very yearof the battle on Lake Champlain, Hudson sailed up the riverthat bears his name, and made with the Iroquois the treatythat has been already referred to in the story of the settlementof New MAP SHOWING FRENCH, SPANISH AND ENGLISH CLAIMS PRIOR TO OVERTHROW OF THE FRENCH In spite, however, of this obstacle to their progress, in spiteof their limited numbers, and in spite of a despotic form of gov-New France emmeut, the French traders made wonderful ^ Lakel undcr Icadcrs unsurpassed for daring and vast accom-sSsippi vai- plishment. In a comparatively short time Champlain^^^ and Nicolet had mapped out the course and confines of the Great Lakes, and St. Lusson, with due pomp and ceremony,had stood on the shores of Lake Superior, claiming the northwestfor the Grand Monarque, Louis XIV. Moreover, nearly ascore of years before the close of the seventeenth century, the KING WILLIAMS WAR 67 adventurous and self-sacrificing La Salle followed the MississippiRiver to its mouth, claiming the interior of the continent in thename of France, and calling the entire valley of the LouisianaFather of Waters Louisiana, in honor of his king. As °^
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