Champlain's War Party Historical Plaque

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Champlain's War Party 1605

Photo by Alan L Brown - May, 2004

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Location

The County of Hastings
The City of Quinte West
In Trenton on the south-west corner of Quinte Street and Albert Street, behind a building

Text

In September, 1605, a small party of Frenchmen, commanded by Samuel de Champlain, and some five hundred Huron Indians passed down the Trent River on their way to attack the Iroquois who lived in what is now northern New York State. Joined by a band of Algonkians they skirted the eastern end of Lake Ontario and journeyed southward to a palisaded Onondaga village near the present site of Syracuse, N.Y. Champlain was wounded, the attack repulsed, and the discomfited allies returned to Huronia. This expedition increased the hostility of the Five Nations towards the French and their Indian supporters, which culminated in the defeat and dispersal of the Hurons, 1649-50.

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