Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, 1620-1698, suceeded Courcelles as governor-general of New France in 1672, holding the office until 1682, and again from 1689 to 1698. During his first administration he displayed great ability in dealing with the Indians and in his encouragement of the French explorers, Jolliet, Marquette, and La Salle, who, with Frontenac's assistance, established posts at Mackinac, Niagara, and in the Illinois country. When he returned to Canada in 1689 he found the country almost ruined by the Iroquois tribe of Indians, against whom he at once began a relentless war, but whom he did not succeed in entirely subduing until his final campaign in the Mohawk country in 1696. During this time he also persecuted their allies, the English, ravaging the coast towns of New England and to the south as far as New Jersey. He also captured Salmon Falls, and Schenectady, and in 1690 repulsed the forces of Sir William Phips before Quebec.
