The picturesque StLawrence . oming down the Richelieu from Lake Cham-plain. Preparations were made to meet thisforce, but the days passed and the enemy did notappear. Frontenac concluded that they hadbeen needlessly alarmed, and the Indians, whowould delay their homeward voyage no longer,were dismissed with ample presents. But soonafterward cannon were heard booming on theopposite shore. The settlement of La Prairie hadbeen attacked by a raiding party of twenty-ninewhites and one hundred and twenty guard of French soldiers at La Prairie wasassisting the inhabitants to reap in the whe
The picturesque StLawrence . oming down the Richelieu from Lake Cham-plain. Preparations were made to meet thisforce, but the days passed and the enemy did notappear. Frontenac concluded that they hadbeen needlessly alarmed, and the Indians, whowould delay their homeward voyage no longer,were dismissed with ample presents. But soonafterward cannon were heard booming on theopposite shore. The settlement of La Prairie hadbeen attacked by a raiding party of twenty-ninewhites and one hundred and twenty guard of French soldiers at La Prairie wasassisting the inhabitants to reap in the wheat-fields. Twenty-five were killed or captured,many cattle were destroyed, and houses andbarns and hayricks burned. This much done, the invaders sat down in thewoods to eat dinner, while cannon answeredcannon from Chambly and Montreal and thefort at La Prairie. The English were not in theleast frightened by all this noise. Indeed, theyseemed to find it entertaining, for the com-mander in describing the experience wrote that:. At the entrance to the Llchine Canal i Early Montreal 85 *We thanked the Governor of Canada for hissalute of heavy artillery during our meal. The expedition, as originally planned, con-templated the capture of Montreal, but mis-management ruined it almost at the start, andonly this handful attempted to go to was their success of any actual blow they dealt was, in fact, less an injuryto the French than an insult. It was the Indians, rather than the English,^who were the real scourge of Canada; but thesavages suffered such serious reverses themselvesin their warfare against the French that morethan once them made overtures for peace. Thewhites were quite ready to cease hostilities oncondition that the savages should return theircaptives, and in 1700 a deputation of Iroquoiswarriors came to Montreal and delivered upthirteen prisoners. There were other Frenchcaptives in their villages, but these had becomeattached to Indian life and wo
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