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Article: Making war more lethal: Iroquois vs. Huron (1) in the Great Lakes Region, 1609 to 1650.
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- Michigan Historical Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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In the stillness of a July morning in 1609 near the lake that now bears his name, Samuel de Champlain, armed with an arquebus into which he "put four bullets," approached to "within some thirty yards" of a loose formation of Mohawk warriors. He stopped, aimed, and "shot straight at one of the three chiefs, and with this shot two fell to the ground and one of their companions was wounded who died thereof a little later." Another Frenchman then fired on the Mohawks from the cover of the woods, "which astonished them again so much that, seeing their chiefs dead they lost courage and took to flight, abandoning the field and their fort." (2)
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