...during the English Civil War, when Royalist Virginia stood against Puritan Massachusetts, or when New Netherland and New France were invaded and occupied by English-speaking soldiers, statesmen, and merchants.Only when London began treating...

...man, Champlain is a sailor and admiral who led 27 Atlantic crossings without losing a ship, an explorer who founded New France (now Quebec), and an artist, cartographer, naturalist and ethnographer whose meticulous journals continue to be...