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.



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