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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.
On August 5, 1689, at dawn, 1,500 Iroquois warriors attacked the village of Lachine: 24 colonists were killed, more than 70 were taken prisoner. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's...
9 Αυγ 2017 · For Archbishop Edouard-Charles Fabre of Montreal and his fellow clerics, dedicating the monument two centuries later in Lachine, the massacre was not simply an example of unbridled Indian...
7 Φεβ 2006 · On the morning of 5 August 1689 some 1500 warriors fell on the little settlement of Lachine just west of Montréal, killing 24 settlers and capturing more than 60 others. The ferocity of this attack terrorized the inhabitants of the Montréal region, who were to suffer many more such raids in the following decade.
5 Αυγ 2014 · Learn about the 1689 attack by 1,500 Iroquois on the French settlement of Lachine, Quebec, during the Beaver Wars. See photos, inscriptions, and historical context of this monument near the Lachine Canal.
22 Αυγ 2018 · Three miles east of Lachine, a squad of two hundred French troops encamped by the road linking the village to Montreal was roused by the sound of cannon fire from one of the forts, signaling an Indian attack.
On the night of August 5, 1689, terrible war cries awakened the inhabitants of the village of Lachine, located at the west point of the Montreal Island. Doors of the modest houses splintered under the blows of tomahawks, as hideously painted Indian warriors burst inside.
