Born in a small French port town, Samuel de Champlain learned skills in seamanship and navigation by his sea captain father. As a young man, he joined various armies and served for them. When these armies disbanded, Champlain found himself unemployed and decided to join his uncle on a journey to the New World. This is where his life changed and he became an explorer. .
Although he was not as well known as the infamous Christopher Columbus, Samuel de Champlain was not very different. He was a cartographer, explorer and the governor of New France. Known as the man who was considered to be the founder of New France, he helped map much of northeastern North America and started a settlement in Quebec, as well as laying the base for a great trading empire. Without the contributions of Samuel de Champlain, New France and Quebec would not have survived the beginning.
In his first few expeditions across the Atlantic, he commanded a Spanish fleet sailing to the West Indies, Mexico, and the Isthmus of Panama. But in 1603 he made his first voyage to New France as a member of a fur-trading expedition. He explored the St. Lawrence River as far as the rapids at Lachine and described his voyage in Des Sauvages (1603).
Until Champlain, the entire New World adventure had brought only disappointment and death for France. Explorers from Jacques Cartier to the Sieur de Monts had all failed to leave any permanent mark. Champlain the visionary would change that history. He dreamed not only of adding a great domain to France but of bringing wealth through the fur trade and penetrating the mysteries of the huge continent. He persuaded the Sieur de Monts to write off his ventures and fired him up with a new energy for an expedition to Quebec. There, he told De Monts, he would "plant himself on the great River of St Lawrence, where commerce and traffic can be carried on much better than in Acadie."" De Monts got his trade monopoly renewed, appointed Champlain governor and set the shipwrights of Honfleur to work fixing ships for the trip to Canada.
Champlain the visionary would change that history. ... Champlain set the men to work felling the butternut trees. ... Before the work was done, Champlain had to put down a mutiny. ... One of the conspirators lost his nerve and told Champlain, who arrested the gang of five. ... In Canada, at the head of such a list, stands Samuel de Champlain. ...
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Leger to lead Lake Ontario, east to the Hudson, Burgoyne to lead Lake Champlain to the Hudson, and Howe to lead from the sea to the Hudson. ... When Burgoyne started sailing down Lake Champlain, he ran into Arnold. ...
Benedict Arnold: Patriot or traitor? In the American Revolution, Arnold played both. From his bravery at Ticonderoga to his treason at West Point, his own fort, his career was a controversial one. As an American military major general and a British military genius, Arnold had a great influence on...
Culture drove England, Spain, and France to their ideas of the exploration of America. Had each one developed similar ideas, then these three distinct civilizations would be blended together into one society today. Before the Americas, these three nations existed with similar race, social, and political structures. As they dispersed to the new world, each formed Latin, Central, and North America, with their own individual qualities. Child labors lead to the colonization of America for England. ...
Allen and Arnold, by order of the Connecticut legislature, crossed lake Champlain in two boats with a total of eighty-three men and captured Fort Ticonderoga early in the morning of May 10, 1775, while the British garrison was still sleeping. ...
Burr is acquitted because there were not two witnesses of this treason. 1808-Jefferson declares the Lake Champlain region to be in a state of insurrection because of its outright violations of the Embargo Act. 1809- The Embargo Act was repealed and replaced with the Non-Intercourse Act which opens trade to all countries except Britain and France. ...