Original sentence: Denonville seized, chained, and shipped the 50 Iroquois chiefs to Marseilles, France, to be used as galley slaves.Denonville set out to make King Louis XIV proud.The Iroquois Confederacy had been a nuisance for half a century, hampering New France's efforts to establish itself as a profitable colony
Edited sentence: The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy, a formidable and longstanding regional power, contested New France's efforts to establish itself as a profitable colony.The mendacious Denonville contemptuously seized, chained, and shipped the 50 Iroquois chiefs to Marseilles, France, to be used as galley slaves