The Champlain-Iroquois Battle of 1615 - A.G. Zeller. - Booklet. - 1962.

Booklet documenting the battle between the Hurons, Algonquians and the French forces, led by Samuel de Champlain against the Iroquois. The Iroquois defeated this united group at a location in central New York State. Booklet also includes photographs and drawings of archaeological work done at the battle site by the author and others in the 1950s.

Historical note:

Samuel de Champlain (b. [1570?]-d. 1635) pursued a double career of explorer and colonizer. In 1613 he went up part of the Ottawa River and became the first European to describe this waterway, which was to serve for close to two centuries as the main trade route to the Canadian West. In 1615, Champlain went to Huron country on the Georgian Bay via the Ottawa River, Lake Nipissing and French River. During the same voyage he also crossed the Trent River Valley and then Lake Ontario to make a brief incursion into Iroquois country north of the present state of New York. Champlain profited from his stay among the Huron, studying their country, mores, customs and way of life, and documented detailed description of them. From 1618 on, Champlain devoted the bulk of his energies to colonization. The merchants interested in the fur trade still continued to oppose such a project, and Champlain spent several years trying to convince the French authorities of its advantages. At the same time, he managed the demographic and material growth of New France, while making a major contribution to setting up the fur trade network, the first economic backbone of the present Canada.