Samuel de Champlain News from United Press International. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War, missiles fired from the USS Vincennes brought down an Iranian airliner in the Persian Gulf, killing all ...

—Samuel de Champlain, Les Voyages, 1613. ... Iroquois guides used sticks and twigs to show him the course of the St. Lawrence River and the location of rapids and waterfalls. But Champlain counted on ...

Today in History for July 4: In 1609, explorer Samuel de Champlain sailed into what was later named Lake Champlain in New York. In 1631, the world's first employment agency opened in Paris. In 1634, ...

A statue of Samuel de Champlain overlooks Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh. A Native American and a guideboat are below him on the pedestal. There are a… ...

The site of a history-changing battle lies somewhere amid the dense tangle of forest along the Lake Champlain shoreline in this Adirondack town. Four-hundred years after French explorer Samuel de ...