Champlain's War Party Plaque

CHAMPLAIN'S WAR PARTY, 1615

In September, 1615, a small party of Frenchmen commanded
by Samuel de Champlain, and some five hundred Huron
Indians, passed down the Trent River on their way to attack
the Iroquois who lived in what is now northern New York
State. Joined by a band of Algonkians, they skirted the eastern
end of Lake Ontario and journeyed southward to a palisaded
Onondaga village near the present site of Syracuse, N.Y.
Champlain was wounded, the attack repulsed, and the
discomfited allies returned to the Huronia. This expedition
increased the hostility of the Five Nations towards the
French and their Indian supporters, which culminated
in the defeat and dispersal of the Hurons, 1649-50.

Erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board.