The Last of the Mohicans

The film Last of the Mohicans is set near the Canadian border and the New York area in the mid 1700’s. The driving force of the movie is to tell the tale of the last surviving Mohican Indian and how this came to be. The movie begins when an Indian war party attacks a group of British soldiers escorting British General Munro’s daughters, Cora and Alice to Fort William Henry. They are rescued along …

…William Henry. General Munro agreed to this and the British left the fort. Shortly after leaving, the party was attacked by a group of Indians led by a renegade Indian named Magua. Magua worked for the French, but he had his own agenda. He was obsessed with his hatred of the English who had killed in family in the past and did not honor the French’s offer for a peaceful surrender of Fort William.