The Good Regiment: The Carignan-Salières Regiment in Canada, 1665-1668

The Good Regiment provides an intriguing account of the Carignan-Salières Regiment — the only seventeenth-century French infantry regiment ever to serve in Canada — and its activities and presents a critical assessment of the regiment's significance. It greatly enriches our knowledge of seventeenth-century North American history.

In 1665 the Carignan-Salières Regiment was sent to Canada by King Louis XIV to quell the Iroquois, whose attacks were strangling the colony's fur-based economy and ...