Brown-Crocker

According to the historian Faillon, he was one of the brave men, who on May 6, 1651, risked their lives to help Catherine Mercier, wife of Jean Boudard. The latter was killed; the poor wife was kidnapped by the Iroquois and tortured at an unknown location. The same year, on Sainte-Anne’s Day, 200 Iroquois attacked Ville-Marie, particularly the hospital. Lambert Closse and his men continued this desperate struggle throughout the whole day. The attackers lost a lot of men. Denys Archambault, while lighting a cannon for the third time, “was killed by an explosion from this weapon which shattered and killed a lot of the enemy”. The hero Archambault was buried the same day. He deserved a monument.