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Lachine massacre

Lachine massacre
Part of King William's War

Map of Montreal, 1687 to 1723. The Lachine settlement was located southwest of Montreal proper.
Date5 August 1689
Location
Result Mohawk victory
Belligerents
Mohawk  New France
Strength
1,500 Indians 375 regulars and settlers
Casualties and losses
3 killed 250 killed

The Lachine massacre, part of the Beaver Wars, occurred when 1,500 Mohawk warriors launched a surprise attack against the small (375 inhabitants) settlement of Lachine, New France, at the upper end of Montreal Island, on the morning of 5 August 1689.

The attack was precipitated by the growing Iroquois frustration with the increased French incursions into their territory and the ongoing concern about French Marquis de Denonville's attack of 1687, and it was encouraged by the settlers of New England as a way to leverage power against New France during King William's War.

In their attack, the Mohawk warriors destroyed a substantial portion of the Lachine settlement by fire and captured numerous inhabitants, killing around 240.[1]

Background

The Mohawk people and other Iroquois tribes attacked the French and their indigenous allies for a variety of reasons related to both economic and cultural circumstances. Europeans settlers in the American Northeast developed a fur trade with Indians, including the Iroquois, and beaver furs were most desired. During the 17th century, French encroachments as part of the Beaver Wars contributed to an erosion of Franco-Indian relations. The French mission to assimilate natives required the abandonment of native traditions, which was met with resistance.[2] By 1667, large numbers of Hurons and Iroquois, especially Mohawks, started arriving at the St Lawrence Valley and its mission villages to escape the effects of warfare. Many traditionalists, including some Mohawks, resented the Jesuits for destroying traditional native society but could not do anything to stop them. Traditionalists reluctantly accepted the establishment of a mission to have good relations with the French, whom they needed for trade.[3] That cultural invasion increased tensions between the two factions.

The relationship between the French and the Iroquois had been strained long before King Philip's War, as the French maintained relations with other tribes as well for both trade and war alliances, such as the Abenaki.[4] In 1679, after the end of the Iroquois war with the Susquehannock and the Mahican, the Iroquois raided native villages in the West. Pushing out Sioux tribes to the west, they claimed hunting grounds in the Ohio Valley by the right of conquest. They were kept empty of inhabitants to encourage hunting. As a result, the Iroquois regularly raided trading parties in the western frontier, which was under French protection, and took loot from them. After a military confrontation in 1684, the Iroquois negotiated a peace treaty with French governor Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre, but it stated the Iroquois were free to attack the western Indians.[5] The French objected to the treaty and replaced La Barre with the Marquis de Denonville. He was less sympathetic to native relations and did not pay attention to the Iroquois-Algonquian tensions. The Iroquois attacked the French partly because they were not willing to accept constraints against their warfare related to traditional Iroquois enemies.

"Mourning wars" were also an important cultural factor in native warfare. Natives fought war to "avenge perceived wrongs committed by one people against another."[6] They were also a means to replace the dead within a native community. In wartime, natives would capture members of another group and adopt them to rebuild their society. When new diseases such as smallpox killed large numbers of native people within their communities, survivors were motivated to warfare to take captives to rebuild.[7] What the Iroquois wanted was not war but a better share of the fur trade.[8] To serve as punishment for attacks on French fur fleets, New France ordered two expeditions under Courcelles and Tracy into Mohawk territory in 1666. The expeditions burned villages and destroyed much of the Mohawk winter corn supply. In addition, Denonville's 1687 invasion of the Seneca nation country destroyed approximately 1,200,000 bushels of corn and crippled the Iroquois economy.[9] That kind of aggression served as fuel for the Iroquois' retaliation that would come.[citation needed] After two decades of uneasy peace, England and France declared war against each other in 1689. Despite the 1686 Treaty of Whitehall in which both France and England agreed that European conflicts would not disrupt colonial peace and neutrality,[10] the war was fought primarily by proxy between New France and the New England Colonies. English colonists in the Province of New York encouraged the Iroquois to attack New France's undefended settlements.[11][12] While English settlers were preparing to carry out raids against French targets, the settlers of New France were ill-prepared to defend against Indian attacks because of the isolation of their farms and villages. Denonville was quoted as saying, "If we have a war, nothing can save the country but a miracle of God."[13]

Attack

Daniel d'Auger de Subercase

On the rainy morning of 5 August 1689, Iroquois warriors launched a surprise nighttime raid on the undefended settlement of Lachine. They traveled up the Saint Lawrence River by boat, crossed Lake Saint-Louis, and landed on the south shore of the Island of Montreal. While the colonists slept, the invaders surrounded their homes and waited for their leader to signal when the attack should begin.[12] They attacked the homes, broke down doors and windows, and dragged the colonists outside, where many were killed.[12] When some of the colonists barricaded themselves within the village's structures, the attackers set fire to the buildings and waited for the settlers to flee the flames.[12]

According to a 1992 article, the Iroquois, wielding weapons such as the tomahawk, killed 24 French and took more than 70 prisoners.[14] Justin Winsor in Narrative and Critical History of America (1884) stated that "it is estimated that more than two hundred persons were butchered outright, and one hundred and twenty were carried off as prisoners."[15] Other sources, such as Encyclopædia Britannica, claim that 250 settlers and soldiers lost their lives during the massacre.[16] The Iroquois wanted to avenge the 1,200,000 bushels of corn burned by the French, but since they were unable to reach the food stores in Montreal, they kidnapped and killed the Lachine crop producers instead.[17] Lachine was the main departure point for westward-traveling fur traders, a fact that may have provided extra motivation for the Mohawk attack.[16]

Aftermath

Fort Rémy, also known as Fort Lachine.[18]

Word of the attack spread when one of the Lachine survivors reached a local garrison three miles (4.8 km) away and notified the soldiers of the events.[19] In response to the attack, the French mobilized 200 soldiers under the command of Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, along with 100 armed civilians and some soldiers from nearby Forts Rémy, Rolland, and de La Présentation to march against the Iroquois.[19] They defended some of the fleeing colonists from their Mohawk pursuers, but just prior to reaching Lachine, the armed forces were recalled to Fort Rolland by the order of Governor Denonville, who was trying to pacify the local Iroquois inhabitants.[20] He had 700 soldiers at his disposal within the Montreal barracks and might have overtaken the Iroquois forces but decided to follow a diplomatic route.

Numerous attacks from both sides followed, but none was fatal, and the two groups quickly realized the futility of their attempts to drive the other out. In February 1690, the French began peace negotiations with the Iroquois. The French returned captured natives in exchange for the beginnings of peace talks.[21] Throughout the 1690s, there were no major French or native raids, and even against the will of the English, peace talks continued.[22] The time of relative peace eventually led to the Montreal Treaty of 1701 by which the Iroquois promised to remain neutral in case of war between the French and the English.[23]

Following the events at Lachine, Denonville was recalled to France for matters unrelated to the massacre,[24] and Louis de Buade de Frontenac took over governorship of Montreal in October.[25] Frontenac launched raids of vengeance against the English colonists to the south "in Canadien style" by attacking during the winter months of 1690 such as the Schenectady massacre.[26][27]

Historical accounts

According to the historian Jean-Francois Lozier, the factors influencing the course of war and peace throughout the region of New-France were not exclusive to the relations between the French and Iroquois or to those between the French and English crowns.[28] A number of factors provide the context for the Lachine Massacre.

Sources of information regarding the victims of the Iroquois in New France are the writings of Jesuit priests; the state registry of parishes in Quebec, Trois-Rivieres, and Montreal; letters written by Marie Guyart (French: Marie de l'Incarnation); and the writings of Samuel Champlain. The accuracy of those sources and reports varies.[29] For instance, in the town of Trois-Rivieres, approximately one third of deaths attributed to the Iroquois lack names.[30] According to Canadian historian John A. Dickinson, although the cruelty of the Iroquois was real, their threat was neither as constant nor terrible as the contemporary sources represented although the residents felt under siege.[31]

European accounts of the Lachine massacre come from two primary sources: survivors of the attack, and Catholic missionaries in the area. Initial reports inflated the Lachine death toll significantly. Colby arrived at the total number of dead, 24, by examining Catholic parish registers before and after the attack.[32] French Catholic accounts of the attack were recorded. François Vachon de Belmont, the fifth superior of the Sulpicians of Montreal, wrote in his History of Canada:

After this total victory, the unhappy band of prisoners was subjected to all the rage which the cruellest vengeance could inspire in these savages. They were taken to the far side of Lake St. Louis by the victorious army, which shouted ninety times while crossing to indicate the number of prisoners or scalps they had taken, saying, we have been tricked, Ononthio, we will trick you as well. Once they had landed, they lit fires, planted stakes in the ground, burned five Frenchmen, roasted six children, and grilled some others on the coals and ate them.[11]

Surviving prisoners of the Lachine massacre reported that 48 of their colleagues were tortured, burned, and eaten shortly after capture. Further, many survivors showed evidence of ritual torture and recounted their experiences. After the attack, the French colonists retrieved several firearms that English colonists had given to the Iroquois, all of which the Mohawk had left behind during their retreat from the island. Evidence of the English arming the Mohawk incited a longstanding hostility towards the colonists of New York as well as demands for revenge among the French. Iroquois accounts of the attack have not been recovered, as they were recounted in oral histories. French sources reported that only three of the attackers were killed.[12]

Because all of the written accounts of the attack were by the French victims, their reports of cannibalism and parents forced to throw their children onto burning fires may be exaggerated or apocryphal. The Mohawk and the Iroquois have used ritual torture after warfare, sometimes to honour the bravery of enemy warriors, as was then common practice among native tribes.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Count Frontenac by William D. Le Sueur - University of Toronto Press, pg. 90
  2. ^ Richter (1992), pp. 105–109.
  3. ^ Richter (1992).
  4. ^ Lyons (2007), pp. 34–44.
  5. ^ Lyons (2007), p. 37.
  6. ^ Rushforth (2012), p. 4.
  7. ^ Rushforth (2012), p. 29.
  8. ^ Wallace (1956), p. 25.
  9. ^ Wallace (1956), p. 24.
  10. ^ Daugherty (1983).
  11. ^ a b CBC (2000).
  12. ^ a b c d e f Borthwick (1892), p. 10, [1]
  13. ^ Lyons (2007), p. 19.
  14. ^ Richter (1992), p. 160; Lozier (2007), pp. 82–84
  15. ^ Winsor (1884), p. 350, [2].
  16. ^ a b "Lachine". Encyclopædia Britannica (online ed.). 22 October 2015.
  17. ^ Wallace (1956), pp. 24–25.
  18. ^ "Fort Lachine (also called Fort Rémy)". Canadian Military Heritage Gateway. Government of Canada. 1 June 2017. Archived from the original on 5 May 2007.
  19. ^ a b Winsor (1884), p. 351, [3]
  20. ^ Roberts (1897), pp. 93–94, [4].
  21. ^ Richter (1992), pp. 165–166.
  22. ^ Richter (1992), p. 170.
  23. ^ Wallace (1956), p. 26.
  24. ^ Campbell (1915), p. 55, [5]; Colby (1914), p. 115, [6]
  25. ^ Colby (1914), p. 112, [7].
  26. ^ Campbell (1915), p. 117, [8]; Colby (1914), p. 116, [9]
  27. ^ "1690: A Key Year". Canadian Military Heritage Gateway. Government of Canada. 1 June 2017. Archived from the original on 2 January 2018.
  28. ^ Lozier (2012).
  29. ^ Dickinson (1982), pp. 32, 54.
  30. ^ Dickinson (1982), p. 34.
  31. ^ Dickinson (1982), p. 47.
  32. ^ Colby (1914), p. 111, [10].

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