TRACY, Marquis Alexandre De Prouville de, governor of Canada, born in France in 1603; died there in 1670. He was a lieutenant-general in the French army, and in 1655 retook Cayenne from the Dutch, and brought several of the adjacent islands under French authority. In 1664 he was appointed viceroy of Canada, which at that time was an object of considerable attention at the French court, especially in what was known as the parti devot. So, when Tracy set sail, a throng of young nobles embarked with him, and the king gave him 200 soldiers, and promised that 1,000 more should follow. All Quebec was on the landing-place when he arrived, 30 June, 1665, and he debarked with a pomp and ceremony such as the city had never before seen. He soon won the fervent admiration of the inhabitants by his piety, and at the same time he betrayed a lack of no qualities needful in his position. After a severe campaign, he subdued the Iroquois Indians, concluding a peace with them that lasted nearly twenty years. He then went on an expedition against the Mohawks, at the head of a force of 1,200 French soldiers, and laid their country waste, taking possession, in the name of the king, of all their lands. The Mohawks sued for peace, and received Jesuit missionaries. The English, hearing of Tracy's advance, claimed the country he invaded, and Sir Richard Nicolls, governor of New York, wrote to the New England governors, begging them to join him against the French. But the New England governors were not prepared for war, and, fearing that their Indian neighbors might take part with the French, hesitated to act. The treaty of Breda in 1667 secured peace for a time between the rival colonies. Tracy returned to France in 1667. "The Jesuits," says Parkman, "resumed their hazardous mission to the Iroquois, and Tracy's soldiers having made peace, the Jesuits were the rivets to hold it fast. Of all the French expeditions against the Iroquois, that of Tracy was the most productive of good."