![]() In its ranks march French regulars in smart olive green uniforms the Canadian militia in buckskin and homespun their Indian allies in bright war paint, and a handful of black-robed priests. It is the army of Jacques Rene de Brissey, the Marquis Denonville, governor of New France. Let's march backward along time's track 260 years, to the blazing hot afternoon of Jwhen a motley army of some 1,500 men pushed its way cautiously into that same Victor valley. Otherwise there's nothing striking about the landscape-just a stretch of marshy wooded land.īut there's no more historic ground in all Western New York than that ancient battlefield. Maybe you've noticed the historical marker on the westerly edge of the village along the old Stage Coach road. The Finger Lake country is a peaceful one today. The village named Victor (after a pioneer) on the busy highway that leads from Rochester to VICTOR - the very name denotes battle and triumph. ![]()
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