1757

Montcalm vs. Webb for Fort William Henry Huron, Abenaki, Ottawa allied with French Mohican, Mohawk, Delaware allied with British "massacre" of August 10 - 185 of 2308 killed

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Film Production Notes:

Based on the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper &

• the 1884 history Montcalm and Wolfe by F. Parkman &
  
• the 1936 film by Philip Dunne starring Randolph Scott
  

Cast:

• Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye (Nathaniel Bumppo)
  
• Russell Means as Chingachgook
  
• Eric Schweig as son Uncas
  
• Madeleine Stowe as Cora Munro
  
• Jodhi May as Alice Munro
  
• Maurice Roeves as Colonel Edmund Munro
  
• Steven Waddington as Major Duncan Heyward
  
• Patrice Chereau as General Montcalm
  
• Wes Studi as Magua
  
• Terry Kinney as John Cameron
  
• Tracey Ellis as Alexandra Cameron
  

Links:

• Film notes and outline for the Wars for Empire
  
• Historical maps and pictures
• A bibliography of books and articles.
  
• A History of the Mohican Indians from Native Circle.
  
• The 1826 novel by James F. Cooper.
  
• Film review by Edwin Jahiel.
  New York Independence Trail includes Glens Falls and Fort William Henry and Fort Edward and Ticonderoga and Saratoga and Crown Point and Bloody Pond
• Fort No. 4 on the Conn. River
• Chimney Rock Park, North Carolina with pictures of the locations where film made