1666

Tuesday, January 9, 1666
M. de Courcelles started from Quebec with 300 men from the regiment of Carignan-Salieres and 200 volunteers, habitants, using sledges drawn by mastiff dogs, for Fort St. Theresa, nine miles about the present village of Chambly. The weather was severe that the soldiers nearly perished from cold.    

Sunday, January 21, 1666

Courcelles' party started up the lake.  Arriving at Bulwagga Bay (opposite Addison) they took the route across to the headwaters of the Hudson. The expedition proved very disastrous and on the way back they stopped two days at Chimney Point waiting for stragglers to come up.

Wednesday, January 24, 1666

-Sieurs de la Forrille, Maximim and Lobiac, Captains of the Carignan regiment, joined the army with sixty men and some habitants but their ranks were so depleted before they reached St. Theresa that four companies had to be taken from the forts on the Richelieu to supply the vacancies.

                                           And many loyal hearts and true,
                                                         Who sailed across the ocean blue,
                                                         Who came its mysteries to explore,
                                                          Sleep now along its rocky shore:
                                                          Unmarked their graves--unknown the spot
                                                          Yet not by kindly Heaven forgot.

                                                                                                                     Marion Stetson Palmer.
                                                                                                                        Champlain, 1837-Plattsburgh, 1885

Tuesday, January 30, 1666  
De Courcelles marched out of fort St. Theresa at the head of 500 men, and passing the lake on the ice, crossed the country toward the Mohawk villages.

Monday, February 12, 1666
De Courcelles, having rested his men after their incursion into the Mohawk country, suddenly broke camp and hastily retraced his steps to Lake Champlain and thence to Canada.

Friday, September 28, 1666
In and about Fort St. Anne were collected 600 veterans of the famous Carignan - Saieres regiment, while on the mainland an equal number of volunteers, habitants of New France and 100 naked and painted savages, Huron and Algonquin warriors, were encamped, the savages making night hideous with war songs and dances. All were ready to start on a punitive expedition under de Tracy, against the Mohawks who had broken the treaty made in July at Quebec.

Monday, October 1, 1666
M. de Courcelles, at the head of four to of the six hundred veterans of the Carignan - Salieres, the habitants, and Huron and Algonquin warriors, encamped at Fort St. Anne, set out on his expedition against the Indian Villages on the Mohawk.

Wednesday, October 3, 1666
The main body of the army at Fort St. Anne, led by the aged, but determined, M. de Tracy, moved off.

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