Quebec Siege Of 1629
The previous year, David Kirke had sailed up
the river, and sent a demand for the surrender of the fort, which
Champlain peremptorily refused. Kirke thereupon returned to the gulf to
meet the French fleet under De Roquemont, which he captured after a
battle which lasted fifteen hours, and carried his prizes and prisoners
back to England. The following year he returned, with a fleet of three
sails, and Champlain surrendered the fort, the more readily as the
little garrison was at the point of starvation. =Index=: See Quebec
City; Kirke. =Bib.=: Kirke, The First English Conquest of Canada;
Parkman, Pioneers of France.