Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sir David Kertk” in entry champlain-samuel-de of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...nor, taking with him his child-wife.
Jesuit priests were sent to Canada as missionaries, and Champlain worked energetically for the cause of religion and the expansion of French dominion.
In 1628 Sir David Kertk appeared with an English fleet before Quebec and demanded its surrender.
Champlain's bold refusal made Kertk retire, but on his way down the St. Lawrence he captured the French supply-ships.
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