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Champlain

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Cham·plain  (shm-pln), Lake
A lake of northeast New York, northwest Vermont, and southern Quebec, Canada. It was the site of important battles in the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The region has many popular resorts.

Cham·plain  (shm-pln, shä-pl), Samuel de 1567?-1635.
French explorer who founded Port Royal, now Annapolis Royal, in Nova Scotia (1605) and established a settlement (1608) on the site of present-day Quebec.

Champlain [ʃæmˈpleɪn]
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(Placename) Lake. a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times

Champlain2
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(Biographies / Champlain, Samuel de (?1567-1635) M, French, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorer, POLITICS: administrator) Samuel de (samyɛl də). ?1567-1635, French explorer; founder of Quebec (1608) and governor of New France (1633-35)
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Noun1.ChamplainChamplain - French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)
2.ChamplainChamplain - a lake in northeastern New York, northwestern Vermont and southern Quebec; site of many battles in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812
Quebec - the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British
Empire State, New York State, NY, New York - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
Green Mountain State, Vermont, VT - a state in New England


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The lengthened sheet of the Champlain stretched from the frontiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies.
That of New Hampshire is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New Hampshire, of New York to Kentucky, and of Kentucky to Lake Champlain.
The Indian, paddling his birch canoe on Lake Champlain, looked up at the high ramparts of Ticonderoga, stone piled on stone, bristling with cannon, and the white flag of France floating above.
 
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