But the end was not yet.
Early in the spring of 1708, the principal tribes of Indians in alliance
with the French held a great council, and agreed to furnish three hundred
warriors for an expedition to the English frontier.
They were joined by one hundred French Canadians and several volunteers,
consisting of officers of the French army, and younger sons of the
nobility, adventurous and unscrupulous. The Sieur de Chaillons, and
Hertel de Rouville, distinguished as a partisan in former expeditions,
cruel and unsparing as his Indian allies, commanded the French troops;
the Indians, marshalled under their several chiefs, obeyed the general
orders of La Perriere. A Catholic priest accompanied them. De Ronville,
with the French troops and a portion of the Indians, took the route by
the River St. Francois about the middle of summer. La Perriere, with the
French Mohawks, crossed Lake Champlain. The place of rendezvous was Lake
Nickisipigue. On the way a Huron accidentally killed one of his
companions; whereupon the tribe insisted on halting and holding a
council.
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