Quebec, Siege of, 1629

   The previous year, David Kirke had sailed up the river, and sent a demand for the surrender of the fort, which Champlain peremptorily refused. Kirke thereupon returned to the gulf to meet the French fleet under De Roquemont, which he captured after a battle which lasted fifteen hours, and carried his prizes and prisoners back to England. The following year he returned, with a fleet of three sails, and Champlain surrendered the fort, the more readily as the little garrison was at the point of starvation.

   Index: See Quebec City; Kirke.

   Bib.: Kirke, The First English Conquest of Canada; Parkman, Pioneers of France.