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Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the Massacre

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On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous “parole of honor” offered by General Montcalm. As the column of British and colonials marched with their families and servants to Fort Edward some miles south, they were set upon by the Indian allies of the French. The resulting “massacre,” considered some of the bloodiest days of the French and Indian War, became perpetually ingrained in American myth by James Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel The Last of the Mohicans.
In Betrayals, historian Ian K. Steele gives us the true story in the back of Cooper’s famous book, bringing to life men such as British commander of Fort William Henry George Monro, English General Webb, his French counterpart Montcalm, and the wild frontier world of Natty Bumppo. The Battle of Lake George and the building of the fort marked the return of European military involvement in intercolonial wars, producing an explosive mixture of the contending martial values of Indians, colonials, and European regulars. The Americans and British who were attacked after surrendering, in addition to French officers and their Indian allies (the latter enraged by the small amount of English booty allowed them by the French), all felt deeply betrayed. Up to date accounts of the sufferers–whose identities Steele has carefully reconstructed from newly discovered sources–helped to create a powerful, racist American folk memory that still resonates today. Survivors included women and men who were adopted into Indian tribes, sold to Canadians in a well-established white servant trade, or jailed in Canada or France as prisoners of war.
Explaining the motives for the most notorious massacre of the colonial period, Steele offers a gripping tale of a fledgling The united states, one which places the tragic events of the Seven Years’ War in a fresh historical context. Somebody interested in the fact in the back of the fiction will find it fascinating reading.
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