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Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France.
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Beaver Wars
17th c. wars between Hurons and Iroquois
The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars, were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Iroquois
Indigenous confederacy in North America
The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. They were known by…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lachine massacre
1689 battle of King William's War
The Lachine massacre, part of the Beaver Wars, occurred when 1,500 Mohawk warriors launched a surprise attack against the small settlement of Lachine, New France, at the upper end of Montreal Island, on the morning of 5 August 1689.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lachine, Quebec
Borough of Montreal in Quebec, Canada
Lachine is a borough (arrondissement) within the city of Montreal on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
New France
Area colonized by France in North America
New France was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)