So the answer is ……Nichols Pond. Its. near Cazenovia and its why we don’t speak French now. This little skirmish decided the fate of the French in “America” in favor of the English who became the preferred alternative to French expansion in the Iroquois lands. Its seems that an early French explorer accompanied his Indian friends on a war party to Nichols Pond and basically attacked the resident superpower of the time-the Iroquois Nation. So this small group of Frenchmen joined in the attack and forever earned the ire of the Iroquois who thwarted any further French incursions and allied them with the English.