Die Fasting

"An Act of War " Ten months after the humiliating defeat and terrifying massacre at Fort William Henry-famously recounted in Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans"-the fierce, blood-soaked conflict still rages throughout North America. Seven soldiers of DeLancey's New York regiment went foraging, but only six returned. The missing man was found with an arrow in his belly, "scalped " Everyone had dismissed the warning that enemy Indians were prowling the vicinity-even the victim's best friend..