History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . -et at smaller prices, with the local In-dians. Another party of thirty followedtheir example. Just before they reachedthe ground of operations they were sur-. THE NEW ST. IGNATIUS CHURCH, ST. IGN.\CE, MICHIG.\N prised by fifty Frenchmen, under orderof La Durantaye, commander of the post,their goods confiscated and distributedamong their captors. A third expedi
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . -et at smaller prices, with the local In-dians. Another party of thirty followedtheir example. Just before they reachedthe ground of operations they were sur-. THE NEW ST. IGNATIUS CHURCH, ST. IGN.\CE, MICHIG.\N prised by fifty Frenchmen, under orderof La Durantaye, commander of the post,their goods confiscated and distributedamong their captors. A third expeditionsuffered a similar fate notwithstandingthat both expeditions carried the Englishflag and had passports from Colonel Don-gan, the governor of New York. While the Indians regretted the loss of opportu-nity for cheaper goods, the English wereonly more determined to instigate the Iro-quois, their closest neighbors, to harassthe French and the tribes under their pro-tection; which placed them on a contin-ual defensive. The petty molestationsculminated in the Lachine massacreduring the night of August 5, 1689, wheneverything living, about four hun-dred persons, were put to fire andsword by the one thousand five hun-dred Iroquois who stealthily sur-rounded the village. This episodeand the complete routing of Onnon-tios forces before Montreal struckterror to the hearts of all savagesunder
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