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Montreal, massacre at
On July 12, 1689, about 1,200 of the Five Nations (see Iroquois Confederacy) invaded the island of Montreal, burned all the plantations, and murdered men, women, and children.
This event threw the whole French colony into consternation.
It was reported that 1,000 of the French were slain during the invasion, besides twenty-six carried into captivity and burned alive.
It was this massacre that the French sought to avenge the next year, when Frontenac sent into the Mohawk country the mongrel party that destroyed Schenectady, and two others which attacked Salmon Falls and Casco, in Maine. Sir William Phipps having been successful in an expedition against Port Royal, Acadia, in 1690, a plan for the conquest of Canada was speedily arranged.
A fleet under Phipps proceeded against Quebec, and colonial land forces were placed under the supreme command of Fitz-John Winthrop, son of Governor Winthrop, of Connecticut.
Milborne, son-in-law of Leisler, undertook, as