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

English

allies

who had furnished them

their

with arms and were

To carry out this determination an ex

supporters. pedition was organized to be conducted in three divisions, the first to rendezous at Montreal and proceed towards Fort Or

ange ; the second, at the Three Rivers and make a descent on

*

Colonial History, in, 599. Colonial History,

Bancroft, in, 179. in, 621.

New York was annexed to New England,

under the government of Sir Edmund Andros, in 1688.

Frontenac brought with him, as a peace offering to the Iroquois, the chiefs who had been treacherously betrayed and taken to France. They were subsequently restored to their people,

THE INDIAN TRIBES

New England, and the third, to proceed by water for the re duction of Fort James. Count de Frontenac was to conduct the land expedition against Fort James, where he was to be met by the fleet under the command of Caffiniere, while the De Callieres, was to conduct the expedition against

governor,

Albany.

The latter expedition left Montreal at the commence The point of attack was concealed