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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frontenac , Louis de Buade , Count de 1620 - (search)
Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Count de 1620-
Colonial governor; born in France in 1620; was made a colonel at seventeen years of age, and was an eminent lieutenant-gen- eral at twenty-nine, covered with decorations and scars.
Selected by Marshal Turenne to lead troops sent for the relief of Canada, he was made governor of that province in 1672, and built Fort Frontenac (now Kingston), at the foot of Lake Ontario in 1673.
He was recalled in 1682, but was reappointed in 1689, when the French dominions in America were on the brink of ruin.
With great energy he carried on war against the English in New York and New England, and their allies, the Iroquois.
Early in 1696 an expedition which he sent towards Albany desolated Schenectady; and the same year he successfully resisted a land and naval force sent against Canada.
He was in Montreal when an Indian runner told him of the approach to the St. Lawrence of Colonel Schuyler (see King William's War). Frontenac, then seventy years of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webster , Daniel 1782 -1852 (search)