⚔️ Siege of Fort William Henry, New York,
3-9 August 1757
Fort William Henry would probably be an obscure footnote in the history of the Seven Years War, except for two events. The first was the massacre of British prisoners at the hands of French-allied indian forces. The second event was the publishing in 1826 of a novel by American author James Fennimore Cooper – ‘The Last of the Mohicans – a Narrative of 1757’ it has been adapted into at least 12 films, the most famous of which are the 1936 version starring Randolph Scott, and the 1992 version starring Daniel Day Lewis