Post by Jacques Bougiedure on Aug 27, 2021 0:08:42 GMT
Excepted from An Address to His Most Christian Majesty, Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre, and His Royal Ministers by Controller General of Finances, Jacques Bougiedure, Comte de Chevreuse
Majesty,
It is my great honor and pleasure to report to you on the successful return of your expedition to New France. The expedition departed from the harbor of Rouen-Le Harve on the 2nd of this year’s March, led by Samuel de Champlain, your newly appointed Governor, and 200 colonists recruited by Cardinal Richelau’s Compagnie des Cent-Associés accompanied by Jesuit missionaries and a company of provincial musketeers to defend the colony against native attacks and encroachment by English colonist.
The crossing was uneventful, having successfully avoided English privateers unlike the ill-fated expedition of 1628 whose twelve ships and two hundred colonist were intercepted at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence river. The expedition made port at the landing of Québec on the 23rd of May finding only six families and five Indian translator remaining after the sacking of the settlement and forced deportation of French colonists by the Kirke brothers in the previous few years.
The colony’s depleted state accounts for the expedition’s poor return. Stocks of deer and beaver pelts were not as plentiful as expected due to reduced numbers of trappers visiting the Québec settlement. In view of the conclusion of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye last year and the emigration of new settlers, I anticipate that future expeditions to New France will be more lucrative.
The expedition’s return was similarly without incident and speedily return owing to favourable currents and weather in the North Atlantic.
Majesty,
It is my great honor and pleasure to report to you on the successful return of your expedition to New France. The expedition departed from the harbor of Rouen-Le Harve on the 2nd of this year’s March, led by Samuel de Champlain, your newly appointed Governor, and 200 colonists recruited by Cardinal Richelau’s Compagnie des Cent-Associés accompanied by Jesuit missionaries and a company of provincial musketeers to defend the colony against native attacks and encroachment by English colonist.
The crossing was uneventful, having successfully avoided English privateers unlike the ill-fated expedition of 1628 whose twelve ships and two hundred colonist were intercepted at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence river. The expedition made port at the landing of Québec on the 23rd of May finding only six families and five Indian translator remaining after the sacking of the settlement and forced deportation of French colonists by the Kirke brothers in the previous few years.
The colony’s depleted state accounts for the expedition’s poor return. Stocks of deer and beaver pelts were not as plentiful as expected due to reduced numbers of trappers visiting the Québec settlement. In view of the conclusion of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye last year and the emigration of new settlers, I anticipate that future expeditions to New France will be more lucrative.
The expedition’s return was similarly without incident and speedily return owing to favourable currents and weather in the North Atlantic.