Theyanooguin and Williams were killed nearby during the Bloody Morning Scout in 1755. In addition to William Johnson, Baron Dieskau, Marquis de Montcalm and Munro, among those that are closely tied to the Battlefield Park were such important historic figures as Mohawk leader Henderick Peters Theyanooguin (known as King Hendrick) Williams College founder Ephraim Williams and Robert Rogers and Rogers Rangers. The 52-foot long radeau was found in Lake George in 1990 and a marker was erected in the Park in 1995. The Land Tortoise, built by Colonial and British troops near at the site in 1758, lies two miles north in 107 feet of water. The Battlefield Park’s grounds were witness to the killing of British and provincial soldiers, family members, and others in camp that took place after terms of surrender had been agreed upon by Monro and the French Commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Veran. This is the story told in Last of the Mohicans. In 1757 Lieutenant-Colonel George Monro, a Scottish-Irish officer in the British Army, was commander of Fort William Henry, and several hundred of his troops were positioned on the grounds of what is now Lake George Battlefield Park when the fort was under siege by the French and their indigenous allies. It was later destroyed by the French, but a reconstructed fort stands there today.
Johnson ordered Fort William Henry constructed. In 1755 the Battle of Lake George took place when Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau, launched an unsuccessful attack on Sir William Johnson’s forces here. Just south of the fort on the Hudson River in Glens Falls, is the location of the cave that helped inspire Cooper to write the story. Cooper called the lake Horican, after a tribe he thought had lived there. Sir William Johnson named the lake after King George II, and Fort William Henry after the King’s grandson Prince William Henry, a younger brother of King George III. A statue of Jogues graces the Park, which overlooks the lake he renamed Lac du Saint-Sacrement (Lake of the Holy Sacrament). Issac Jogues landed there on his way south with the Mohawk in 1642 (they called the lake Kaniá:taro’kte). Warren County, NY is where many of the real-life actions of 1757 depicted in the novel occurred, including at what is now Lake George Battlefield Park, the location of several other important historical events. The novel is one of five Cooper wrote that make up the Leatherstocking Tales series, all of them set in Upstate New York between the years 17. Last of the Mohicans has also been adapted to film at least eight times, most recently in 1992 starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe. In February 1826 one of America’s seminal works of historical fiction, James Fenimore Cooper‘s The Last of the Mohicans, was first published.
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