WEEK 5AMERICAN STUDIES13 OCTOBER 2014

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR 1754-1763

BEFORE THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR

AFTER THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR

Fort Necessity—George Washington starts a world war.

Benjamin Franklin urged the separate colonies to join together as one country to fight the French.

Lake Champlain.6000 French & Indian fighters under the command of Gen. Montcalm came by boat from Canada to attack Ft. William Henry and recapture land and lakes that had been theirs for over 100 years.

Lac du Sacrement, renamed by the English as Lake George.

2000 British and Americans. Col. Munro sent for reinforcements that never came.

Gen. Webb declined Munro’s request for reinforcements.

Albany

The British and the French followed the same War Road used traditionally by the Indians.

Canada

The Last of the Mohicans is an 1826 novel by James Fennimore Cooper. It is based on the Battle of Fort William Henry. The main fictional characters are• Nathaniel, a frontiersman, aka

Hawkeye• Chingachgook, chief of the

Mohicans• Uncas, son of Chingachgook, the

“last” of his tribe• Magua, the “bad” Indian who has

sworn revenge upon Col. Munro• Alice & Cora—Col. Munro’s

daughters• Major Duncan Heyward—British

officer, in love with Cora