[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] beyond Lake Champlain. In February, 1693, Frontenac in vaded the Mohawk territory, surprised and burned their castles, killed ma.ny and took three hundred prisoners. The invasion cost the invaders thirty men, but the Mohawks were completely dispersed. The forces at Albany, accompanied by such Mahi-cans as could be rallied, hastened to their relief, pursued the retreating enemy and recovered most of the prisoners. Go vernor Fletcher reached Albany soon after, and so pleased were the stricken chiefs at the celerity of his movements that they gave to him the flattering title of Lord of the Great Swift 176 THE INDIAN TRIBES V Arrow.1 The tide of war then rolled along the frontiers of New England, and the settlements at Oyster river in New Hampshire, and Haverhill in Massachusetts, were destroyed, Hatfield and Deerfield, on the Connecticut, shared the same fate. In 1696, Frontenac invaded the territory of the Onondagas, but without much success,2 while Indians in detached bands warred for the respective powers with which they were in alliance! In the year following the war terminated in September, by the peace of Ryswick, and the principal combatants withdrew. Colli