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On June 16, 1649 the missionaries chose to burn the mission rather than risk seeing it desecrated or permanently overrun by Iroquois in further attacks.
Paul Ragueneau wrote, " We ourselves set fire to it, and beheld burn before our eyes and in less than one hour, our work of nine or ten years.
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