CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (WCAX) - While July 4 marks America’s 250th birthday, it’s also the 417th anniversary of a French explorer’s trip to New York that led to the naming of Lake Champlain. And now, a ...
You wouldn’t know it from most of the events held to date, but Henry Hudson wasn’t the first European to explore upstate New York 400 years ago this summer. Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer ...
Notes: In this essay, James Kences tells the story of Samuel de Champlain, an important early French explorer, navigator, soldier, diplomat and founder of New France and the Quebec settlement. He made ...
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