Montcalm assures Munro that the English soldiers and women and children will have safe passage from the fort back to their other encampments. Munro has been attempting to withstand a French siege of his fort, led by French Marquis de Montcalm, but after learning that General Webb will not reinforce Munro, Munro hands over the fort to Montcalm. Magua escapes northward, near Lake George, and the band makes its way to Fort William Henry, where they are welcomed by Munro. The lives of all the members of the band are spared, and all the Hurons except Magua are killed. Magua then attempts to kill the remainder of the band, only to have his Huron allies killed by Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook, who have returned from their strategic retreat. Magua demands that Cora marry him, and Cora refuses. But after the band hides in a cave and runs out of gunpowder, Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook retreat to send word to General Webb, and Magua and a group of Hurons capture Heyward, Alice, Cora, and David. Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook agree to escort the band the rest of the way, and attempt to protect them from Mingo (or Huron) attacks.
Hawkeye says it is suspicious that Magua, a native runner, would get lost in the woods, and in confronting Magua, Hawkeye causes him to run away, deserting the band. Heyward, spotting a scout named Hawkeye, also known as Natty Bumppo and who describes himself as a “ man without a cross,” and two Mohicans (natives allied with the English and related to the Delawares) named Uncas and Chingachgook, asks them for advice in getting to the fort.
The band sets off for Fort William Henry, meets up with a Christian singer of psalms named David along the path, and gets lost.
This band has, for its guide, a former Mingo, or Iroquois, now allied with the Delaware natives and the English, named Magua. At its start, a young English Major named Duncan Heyward is to assist Cora and Alice Munro, daughters to Colonel Munro, as they travel from Fort Edward (commanded by General Webb) to Fort William Henry (commanded by Col. The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, in what is now upstate New York near Saratoga Springs, during the French and Indian War.
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