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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
, 1683. existence to a large legislative council; and an assembly of notables was convoked by De la Barre, the governor-general, to devise a remedy for the ills under which the settlements languished all evil put away from the hearts of the English sachems. On the same day, a messenger from De la Barre appeared at Albany. But his complaints were unheeded. We have not wandered from our paths, owledgment, as the English deemed, of British sovereignty. Meantime the rash and confident De la Barre, with six hundred French soldiers, four hundred Indian allies, our hundred carriers, and thrown into a deep water. The deputies of the tribes repaired to the presence La Hom tau. of De la Barre to exult in his humiliation. It is well for you, said the eloquent Haaskouaun, rising from tg his allies at the mercy of their enemies. Meantime fresh troops arrived from France, and De la Barre was superseded by Denonville, an officer whom Charlevoix extols as possessing, in a sovereign