LAST OF THE MOHICANS
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"The Last Of The Mohicans" is an adventure and romance set during the third year of the war raging between England and France in the American colonies. Each side has forged alliances with native peoples and the country beyond Albany, New York, is aflame. Moving through this frontier is Hawkeye also known as Nathaniel), adopted son of the Mohican Chingachgook, and his Mohican brother, Uncas. The Mohicans are a vanishing people, and these three men are heading west to winter with their ethnic cousins the Delaware in their towns on the Ohio, where Uncas will find a wife and perpetuate their line. However, en route they break up an ambush, led by the Huron war captain Magua, and save Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British officer, and their companion, Major Duncan Heyward. They agree to guide them as far as Fort William Henry. In so doing all their fates become intertwined as Hawkeye and Cora become lovers and the group fights to survive this war and the wilderness in which...
"...it would seem in time there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any place so secret, that it was exempt from those who had pledged their blood to satiate vengeance." - James Fenimore Cooper
In an effort to reunite with their father, the commander at Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, accompanied by Cora's suitor, Major Duncan Heyward, are led into an ambush by the Huron war captain, Magua, masquerading as a Mohawk guide. Magua, in addition to military motives, has sworn to avenge himself personally upon the entire Munro family for a past injury he won't easily reveal. But the ambush is broken by Hawkeye, Chingachgook and Uncas, who agree to guide the Munro sisters and Heyward to the safety of Fort Willaim Henry. En route, Cora, who has never met anyone remotely like the independent and candid Hawkeye, comes to realise she is in a new world with a new kind of man and in her heart and her thoughts this man and this place captivate her.
Upon arrival outside Fort Willaim Henry they dicover instead of sanctuary a fort under siege by a massive French and Indian army. The surrounding territory is alive with roving war parties. Pursued from behind, they steal into the fort during an artillery bombardment. Colonel Munro is indebted to these men who guided his children to safety, but gratitude turns to conflict because Hawkeye and Uncas brought with them the news that frontier homes are being raided by Huron and Ottawa war parties allied with the French, and they, too, press the colonial militia's demand to be released to protect their homes. Munro, obedient to british military self-interest, refuses.
Meanwhile, Cora rejects Heyward's proposal, and she and Hawkeye become lovers. Then Hawkeye is arrested and condemned to hang because he facilitated the colonials' escape from the fort.
While Cora, following her heart, is separated by the bars from Hawkeye in the stockade, the French launch their final mortar bombardment. Fort William Henry falls to Montcalm, the French commander, who offers generous terms of surrender and safe passage out of French occupied territory. Behind Montcalm's generosity, however, is deceit as the retreating English column, including Hawkeye in chains, is attacked by Magua and an army of warriors on August 8, 1757.
As Cora and her sister are captured by Magua, their only hope lies in Hawkeye and the Mohicans...
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