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James Fennimore Cooper's The Last Of Mohicans

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The last of Mohicans is a novel written by James Fennimore cooper that talks about the French and Indian war and shows us what happen in our American history. The last of Mohicans was a great novel which mainly talked about the French and Indian war and involved the last of the Mohican tribes. The French and Indian war was like the World War l, well similar you could say because it was a lot of blood just for something that is seems weird or out silly if you really think about. It was an ugly war which many lost their lives just for land and territory. The French really should of over thought about the situation, they put them self’s in before the war started since the war was on American territory. Many of the historical acts in the novel exist in real life like the fights, weapons. They talked about the places they stayed the houses they used actually existing. Many of the historical things they talked about the novel was really accurate. Fort William Henry was one of the accurate assumptions. In the novel the British and the French were at war and the French did attack the British fort. The British were forced to surrender and put up the white flag with the Indians allies of the French were angry and attacked the British after they left the fort so the Indians went after them killing many of the British. …show more content…

It really began before the shots were fired from the French and the English. The French and Indian war was really not against the French and the Indians. It was really 2 enemies against the English. It was the seven years’ war from 1756 to 1763 which was brought into Europe and eventually went to the American

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The Last of The Mohicans is based on a fictional story but contains events such as battles that are real. The book is upon French and Indian War, which James Fenimore Cooper opens up with in the beginning of chapter 1. In detail he explains the surroundings in the French and Indian war, he explains the horrifying blood bath as it says in chapter 1 “It became, emphatically, the bloody arena, in which most of the battles for the mastery of the colonies were contested.” (Cooper 3). After James Fenimore Cooper is done explaining the battlefield in depth, he introduces main characters, Cora Munro, Alice Munro, Magua, Colonel Munro, Major Duncan Heyward and David Gamut at the end of chapter 1 and the beginning of chapter 2.

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