Champlain Lake

Discovered by Samuel Champlain, July, 1609. Here took

place the first hostile encounter between the French and the Iroquois.

The French were the aggressors, and had bitter enough cause to remember

the fact throughout the century. In 1666 the Sieur de la Motte built a

fort on Ile La Motte, which was afterwards abandoned. Fort St. Frederic

was built at Crown Point, 1731. It was enlarged and strengthened in

1734, and agai in 1742. Lake Champlain became the war thoroughfare, not

merely between the Iroquois and French, but between New France and New

England. Fort Carillon was built, 1755-1756. With this lake are

associated the names of Dieskau and Sir William Johnson, Montcalm and

Abercrombie, Ethan Allen and Montgomery. =Index=: (Count Frontenac era) Champlain reaches,

in his expedition against the Iroquois, 9, 10. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Canada to be

attacked by way of, 34; trouble among the settlers on, 89, 197; guarding

against invasion from, 125, 133, 134; Major Carleton on, 149; messengers

intercepted on, 129; forts captured by Ethan Allen, 198; Vermont

negotiations held upon, 204; fear of rebel approach by, 208, 216; Ethan

Allen offers to meet Haldimand upon, 214; Loyalists on shores of, 250.

(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Montcalm at, 32, 34; 54-61; forts on, evacuated by Bourlamaque,

146. (Lord Dorchester era) Armed craft on, captured, 82; Americans evacuate Canada by way

of, 146; route of attack on New England, 147; Carleton builds a fleet

on, 149; description of the lake, 153; Carleton defeats Arnold on,

154-157. (Samuel de Champlain era) Encounter with Iroquois at southern extremity of, 53.