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Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
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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)
Fort Ticonderoga
Historic fort in New York State
Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York. It was constructed between October 1755 and 1757 by French-Canadian military engineer Michel Chartier de…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Crown Point, New York
Town in New York, United States
Crown Point is a town in Essex County, New York, United States, located on the west shore of Lake Champlain. The population was 2,024 at the 2010 census. The name of the town is a direct translation of the original French name, Pointe à la Chevelure.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Samuel de Champlain
French explorer of North America (1574–1635)
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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)