Raid sur Corlaer

Informations générales
Date	18 février 1690
Lieu	Schenectady, colonie de New York
Canadiens; Iroquois du Sault et de la réserve de la Montagne; Algonquins	Habitants de Schenectady
210 hommes
	60 hommes tués,; 27 capturés, ; 80 maison incendiées
Coordonnées	42° 49′ 08″ nord, 73° 56′ 53″ ouest

Le raid sur Corlaer ou massacre de Schenectady est une action montée par les Canadiens français dans le contexte des guerres franco-iroquoises et de la première guerre intercoloniale, pendant de la guerre de la Ligue d'Augsbourg en Amérique du Nord. Il s’agit d’une action de représailles à la suite du massacre de Lachine intervenu en août 1689 et qui a mis Montréal dans le plus grand émoi. Monté en plein hiver, le raid ravage le village de Corlaer ou Schenectady^[4]^,^[5]^,^[6] dans la colonie de New York. Son retentissement y est considérable mais n’est qu’un des épisodes du cycle de violence qui oppose régulièrement les colons français et anglais pour la domination de l’Amérique du Nord au XVII^e et au XVIII^e siècle.

↑ La Roncière 1930, p. 39-41, (Lacoursière 2013, p. 176).
↑ Erreur de référence : Balise <ref> incorrecte : aucun texte n’a été fourni pour les références nommées La-Ronciere p39-41
↑ Erreur de référence : Balise <ref> incorrecte : aucun texte n’a été fourni pour les références nommées Le-Moyne-de-Sainte-Hélène
↑ Les Français écrivaient Corlar le nom d'Arendt Van Corlaer ; les Anglais l'écrivaient Van Curler.
↑ Yon 1970
↑ « Early in the spring of 1662 Van Curler led his fourteen freemen and their families into their new possession. Travelling westward, up what is now Clinton Avenue in Albany, until they reached Norman's Kill, they struck northward, following the Indian trail of blazed trees, until after a circuit of twenty miles they reached fheir future home, on a low plateau on the banks of the Mohawk. On this old site of an Indian village they began the erection of their houses, mill, church, and palisades. The aboriginal name of the village, from which the Mohawks had removed, pointed to the vast piles of driftwood deposited on the river-flats after the spring floods; but not till after the English conquest did any one apply the old Indian name of the site of Albany — that is, "Schenectady " — to Van Curler's new settlement. Both French and Indians called the village "Corlaer," even as they also called the Mohawk River "the river of Corlaer," and the sheet of water in which he was drowned, not after its discoverer, Champlain, but "Corlaer's Lake." Nevertheless, since the Mohawks had already retired from the Hudson River, and "the place outside the door of the Long House" was no longer Albany, but "Corlaer," they and the Europeans, soon after 1664, began to speak of the new settlement as "Schenectady;" especially, as by their farther retirement up the valley, "Corlaer" was now the true "Schenectady;" that is, outside the door of the Iroquois confederacy or Long House. »

[1] La Roncière 1930, p. 39-41, (Lacoursière 2013, p. 176).

[La-Ronciere_p39-41-2] Erreur de référence : Balise <ref> incorrecte : aucun texte n’a été fourni pour les références nommées La-Ronciere p39-41

[Le-Moyne-de-Sainte-Hélène-3] Erreur de référence : Balise <ref> incorrecte : aucun texte n’a été fourni pour les références nommées Le-Moyne-de-Sainte-Hélène

[4] Les Français écrivaient Corlar le nom d'Arendt Van Corlaer ; les Anglais l'écrivaient Van Curler.

[5] Yon 1970

[6] « Early in the spring of 1662 Van Curler led his fourteen freemen and their families into their new possession. Travelling westward, up what is now Clinton Avenue in Albany, until they reached Norman's Kill, they struck northward, following the Indian trail of blazed trees, until after a circuit of twenty miles they reached fheir future home, on a low plateau on the banks of the Mohawk. On this old site of an Indian village they began the erection of their houses, mill, church, and palisades. The aboriginal name of the village, from which the Mohawks had removed, pointed to the vast piles of driftwood deposited on the river-flats after the spring floods; but not till after the English conquest did any one apply the old Indian name of the site of Albany — that is, "Schenectady " — to Van Curler's new settlement. Both French and Indians called the village "Corlaer," even as they also called the Mohawk River "the river of Corlaer," and the sheet of water in which he was drowned, not after its discoverer, Champlain, but "Corlaer's Lake." Nevertheless, since the Mohawks had already retired from the Hudson River, and "the place outside the door of the Long House" was no longer Albany, but "Corlaer," they and the Europeans, soon after 1664, began to speak of the new settlement as "Schenectady;" especially, as by their farther retirement up the valley, "Corlaer" was now the true "Schenectady;" that is, outside the door of the Iroquois confederacy or Long House. »

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