nce had been crowned with success. In grateful
memory of this brave defense, the French king caused a medal to be
struck, bearing the inscription, "FRANCIA IN NOVO ORBE VICTRIX: KEBECA
LIBERATA.--A.D., M.D.C.X.C." In the lower town a church was built by the
inhabitants to celebrate their deliverance from the British invaders,
and dedicated to "Notre Dame de la Victoire."

On the 12th of November, the vessels, long expected from France, arrived
in safety at Quebec, having escaped the observation of the English fleet
by ascending for some distance the land-locked waters of the Saguenay.
Their presence, however, only tended to increase a scarcity then
pressing upon the colony, the labor of the fields in the preceding
spring having been greatly interrupted by the harassing incursions of
the Iroquois. The troops were distributed into those parts of the
country where supplies could most easily be obtained, and were
cheerfully received by those who had through their valor been protected
from the hated dominion of the stranger.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 403: Afterward called Sorel.]

[Footnote 404: The River Iroquois, or Sorel. "Dans les premieres annees
de notre etablissement en Canada les Iroquois, pour faire des courses
jusque dans le centre de nos habitations, descenderent cette riviere a
laquelle pour cette raison on donna le nom de riviere des Iroquois. On
l'a depuis appelle la Riviere de Richelieu, a cause d'un fort qui
portoit ce nom et qu'on avoit construit a son embouchure. Ce fort ayant
ete ruine, M. de Sorel en fit construire un autre auquel on donna son
nom; ce nom s'est communique a la riviere qui le conserve encore
aujourd'hui, quoique le fort ne subsiste plus depuis longtemps
(1721)."--Charlevoix, tom. v., p. 221.

"There is another Iroquois river marked on the French maps, falling into
the Teakiki. It received this name from a defeat experienced by the
Iroquois from the Illinois, a race whom they had always
despised."--Charlevoix, vol. vi., p. 118.]

[Footnote 405: Charlevoix says of Montreal in 1721, "Elle n'est point
fortifiee, une simple palisade bastionnee et assez mal entretenue fait
toute sa defence, avec une assez mauvaise redoute sur un petit tertre,
qui sert de boulevard, et va se terminer en douce pente a une petite
place quarree. C'est ce qu'on rencontre d'abord en arrivant de Quebec.
Il n'y a pas meme quarante ans, que la ville etoit toute ouverte, et
tous les jours exposee a etre brulee par l