"Hit the line hard and do not foul" was not the motto of the victors in this book. Perhaps Theodore Roosevelt confirmed the validity of this motto by reading the adverse historical results of those that believed they were justified in making false statements and bearing false witness against Count Frontenac to have him replaced as Canada's governor. La Salle most likely would have been successful in his attempt to have the Iroquois Indians end the war with the Illinois Indians. The absence of this accomplishment of peace set a larger war in progress because the recall of Frontenac ended La Salle’s proposed peace between the two tribes (see La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West)