Wednesday, October 24, 2007

His life

Samuel Champlain was a french explorer who explored the new land now called the Americas.
He was born in 1567 in the town of Brouage, France. His father was a ship-captain. He learned the ways of the sea from his uncle, also his first important voyage, one to Spain, was with his uncle. Champlain received education as a navigator. At his early life he entered the army and he becamed a quartermaster of Calvary. He went to the University of Toronto Press and as a young adult he went to war in Brittany. In January, 1599, he sailed to the West Indies, and during two years and a half, he visited many islands, then, he landed at Veracruz, then, he went to an island far to the city of Mexico, and at last, he returned by way of Panama where he made a plan of a ship-canal across the isthmus reaching spain in march, 1601.

He mapped much of northeastern North America and started a settlement in Quebec, it was the first permanent white settlement in Canada, which makes Quebec the oldest city in Canada.

In 1609 he leaves with Hurons and Montagnais to explore the surrounding areas, to the South he discovers lake Champlain. To prove his loyalty to his new allies, he participates in a battle against an Iroquois, during the battle, he kills one of their chiefs with his musket. The events of this fateful day result in a century-long hate between the French and the Iroquois.

Illness and death

He died the December 25th of 1635 in Quebec (Canada) by a sickness of paralysis and stroke.


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