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The Last of the Mohicans Film Summary The daughters of Colonel Munro, Cora and Alice and Major Duncan Heyward, a childhood friend, who had been assigned to serve under Colonel Munro at Fort William Henry, began a journey through the wilderness to join their father. They were accompanied by a small group of militia and their guide for the trip, Magua, a Mohawk Indian. Heyward wanted to marry Cora because he was in love with her. Although Cora's feelings for him did not go beyond friendship, he convinced her to consider his proposal. As they made their way through the forest, they were attacked by Huron Indians. It's an ambush that they were led into by Magua, who was not a Mohawk, but a Huron, and a spy. Most of the party was slaughtered, but the women and Heyward were rescued by Hawkeye, a frontiersman and two Mohicans. Hawkeye released their horses and they continued to travel on foot to the fort. Their new guide, Hawkeye, was Nathaniel Poe, a white man adopted by Chingachgook, a Mohican and raised with Uncas as a son. These three lead the women to their father, but when they arrived at the fort they found it under siege by the French. Munro met with the French General, who showed him an intercepted message from Webb in which the general refused to send aid to the fort. After many days of being under siege and with no one coming to his aide, Munro surrendered to General Montcalm’s generous terms. The terms were that the men and their families were offered safe passage to Albany on the condition that they no longer fight in the war. That night, Magua criticized Montcalm for making peace and revealed the reason for his hatred of Munro. He had been captured and made a slave by Munro's forces and Mohawk allies, his village was destroyed and his children killed. Though he eventually regained his freedom, his wife, believed him dead and had

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