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Samuel de Champlain was born in 1574 in a small port town named Brouage.
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From 1601 to 1603, Samuel de Champlain was a geographer for King Henry IV
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In 1603, Samuel de Champlain joined François Gravé Du Pont's voyage to Canada, he didn't have a specific role but was still accepted because of his oddly specific predictions of the geographic features of their destination.
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Samuel de Champlain made a fort in what is now Quebec City, Quebec would later become the main place you'd go to for fur trade.
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The Summer after he got to Quebec, Samuel de Champlain fought in a battle with Iroquois. It would establish a hostile relationship between the two for more than a century.
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Samuel de Champlain joined a tribe he was good friends with named the Hurons into a battle with Iroquois. They trekked straight into the middle of Canada, but the act of bravery didn't do much as they lost the battle. In the fight, Champlain was hit with an arrow in the knee so he couldn't walk anymore, luckily he was able to stay with the Hurons through the winter and he ended up writing one of the earliest, most detailed description of Native American life.
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Samuel de Champlain died on December 25, 1635 in Quebec, Canada.