The Five Nations, armed by the Dutch, who sought to divert the northern and interior fur trade of the Huron and Algonquin to their own posts, with the Iroquois as intermediaries, attacked the Hurons on the Richelieu (erected by the French at the mouth of the Richelieu River, 1642) was burned (1647), with raids deep into the Huron country which forced the Jesuits to abandon their last Huron mission (1650) and the Hurons to retreat as far west as Wisconsin, where they were joined by other fugitive tribes from the Ottawa Valley, the Ohio, and southern Michigan. Raids along the St. Lawrence penetrated to the Saguenay-Rupert River country (1652). Victorious, though dangerously overextended, the Iroquois signed a peace with the French (5 Nov. 1653).