Adam Dollard des Ormeaux,, also known as Adam Daulaut or simply as Dollard des Ormeaux, was a colonist and soldier of New France. As garrison commander, in 1660 he led his companions and native allies from the fort at the town of Ville-Marie, with its population of 600 colonists, to an area up the Ottawa River known as Long-Sault. The exact nature or purpose of Dollard's 1660 expedition is unsure, but it is believed that they intended to ambush a larger force of Iroquois warriors that were rumored to be approaching from the west to attack the French colonists. A revisionist theory is that Dollard led a group of men into the forest to...more »