on the south side of the island of Montreal, burned the houses, sacked the plantations, and put to the sword all the men,

women and children without the fortifications. " In less than an hour, two hundred people met death under forms too hor

Approaching the town of Montreal, they made an equal number of prisoners, and after a severe skirmish became masters of the fort, and of the whole island, of which

rible for description.

In they remained in possession until the middle of October. the moment of consternation, De Denonville ordered Fort

From Frontenac, on Lake Ontario, to be evacuated and razed. Three Rivers to Mackinaw, there remained not one French

town, and hardly even a post." Anticipating an aggressive movement on the part of the Eng lish and their allies,

Louis.

Governor

representation had already been

Andros,

who had

succeeded

made to

Dongan,

promptly declared his determination to regard his Indian allies " as subjects of the' crown of England," and the French gave

up all hope of detaching them even through the influence of their priests. To retain possession of the territory was their only expectation, coupled with a determination to injury as they could.

inflict

such

Under these instructions Count de Fronte

nac was appointed governor-general, and with a considerable force landed at Quebec within forty days after the attack of the Iroquois on Montreal, and the first news he met, on entering He determined to the St. Lawrence, was an account of it. not the retaliate, Iroquois^ but against their by marching against