Crossword-Solution: DONGAN 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dongan, an Irishman of high birth and a Catholic, strenuously opposed the pretensions of the French to sovereignty over the Iroquois.

Indeed, no governor of Puritan New England had ever equalled Dongan in hostility to Catholic New France.

Not only Dongan was doing his best to make the Iroquois allies of the English; Lord Howard of Effingham, the governor of Virginia, was busy to the same end.

Dongan was a thorn in his side from the first, although their correspondence opened, on both sides, with the language of compliment.

Beneath these epistolary compliments there lies the broad fact that Dongan stood firm by his principle that the extension of French rule to the south of Lake Ontario should not be tolerated: He ridicules the basis of French pretensions, saying that Denonville might as well claim China because there are Jesuits at the Chinese court.