HISTORY OF VERMONT. ^67 



dred good troops were sent from France, in the 

 year 1662; and these, in two years more, were re- 

 inforced with the regiment of Carignan. With 

 this force, the courage and hopes of the colony 

 revived. M. Courcelles, the governor of Cana-- 

 da, supposed it would have a good effect, to 

 carry the war into the country of their enemies t 

 With this view in 1665 he sent out a large par- 

 ty against the Mohawks, one of the five nations* 

 The expedition was undertaken in the winter : 

 Through ignorance of the country, and the want 

 of proper snow-shoes, tlie whole army were near 

 perishing, when they accidentally fell in with 

 Schenectadv, a Dutch settlement on the Mo- 

 hawk river. At Schenectady, tlie whole party 

 were in the utmost danger of being destroyed 

 by the Mohawks. What prevented, was the 

 interposition of one Corlear, a Dutchman. And 

 such an impression was made on the minds of 

 the Indians, by tlie preservation which this man 

 had afforded them, that they never forgot either 

 his friendship, or his name. In all their trea- 

 ties ever after, with the governors of Newyork, 

 they always addressed them by the name of 

 Corlear • an expression, in their view, signifi* 

 Cant of kindness, friendship, and confidence. 



To retrieve the misfortunes of their wintel" 

 expedition, in the spring of 1666, twenty light 

 companies of foot, with all the militia of Cana- 

 da, marched into the Mohawk country. Their 

 march was attended widi great expence, and 

 fatigue ; and continued for more than seven 

 hundred miles, through an uncultivated and 

 hostile country ; but did not prove destructive 

 of many of their enemies. At the approach cf 



