Champlain and one other Frenchman were wounded with arrows in the neck and arm, but not seriously.

The victory of the allies was followed by the usual torture of prisoners, which Champlain made a slight--only slight--attempt to prevent.
[Footnote 24: Spelt by Champlain with a "ch" instead of _sh_.] [Footnote 25: Then called the Riviere des Iroquois.] But results far more serious arose from these two skirmishes with the Iroquois in 1609 and 1610.

The Confederacy of the Five Nations (afterwards six) realized that they had been attacked unprovoked by the dominant white men of the St.Lawrence, called by the Montagnais _Mistigosh_, and by the Iroquois _Adoreset[-u]i_ ("men of iron", from their armour).

They became the bitter enemies of the French, and tendered help first to the Dutch to establish themselves in the valley of the Hudson, and secondly to the English.

In the great Colonial wars of the early eighteenth century the Iroquois were invaluable allies to the British forces, Colonial and Imperial, and counted for much in the struggle which eventually cost France Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, the two Canadas, and Louisiana.