Capture of York Factory

(The fort's residents consisted mainly of HBC traders, clerks and laborers and they had not brought in enough firewood to withstand a long siege).

Iberville waited, hoping to capture the annual English supply ships.

By September they had not arrived, so he left 70 men at the fort and sailed for La Rochelle with a valuable load of furs.

In the previous year, the English had recaptured Fort Albany to the south on James Bay.

Ten months after Iberville left three Royal Navy frigates under William Allen recaptured York Factory.