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Commentary On The Film 'The Last Of The Mohicans'

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Brandon Rios

Professor Luis E. De La Garza

HIST 1301 S04 MW 6:00 - 7:15

20 November 2017

The Last of the Mohicans report

The movie “ The Last of the Mohicans” is a story based on the french and indian war, a war that last seven years from 1756 - 1763. The french and indian war began when the english began moving into the french territory, tension between the british and the french in america had been getting worse, for some time as each side wanted to gain more land. As a result the england began to plan to set up colonies in this region and so the french decided to set up forts to keep the british out. both of these country were trying to keep each other out of from fort duquesne,also the indian …show more content…

Furthermore they proceeded to their destination ( Fort William Henry), when they were on there destination they came across found the cabin burned and a lot of people dead, they didn’t take anything. As they found this cruel information about what happen one of the woman thought they should at least be buried but hawkeye said no for the mere fact that if they did the french and other indian would find their trail.

the french and indian fought the british and the colonial militia at a fort , Major Duncan Heyward, Hawkeye and alice and cora meet with the father of alice and cora (Colonel Munro). When they get there Major Heyward is talking to Colonel Munro when they discuss the issues regarding the french, as they Munro tells Heyward that they outgunned and outnumbered. Then hawkeye tells Munro that the cabin was burned and that all of them were murdered, as Munro receive this news he didn’t care and tells them to leave, he only cares about the battle

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