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James Fenimore Cooper: Cambridge History
Cambridge History of American Literature (), Book II, Chapter VI
by Carl Van Doren
James Fenimore Cooper, , John Wesley Jarvis
§ James Fenimore Cooper; Youth; Naval Career.
.Born at Burlington, New Jersey, 15 September, , the son of Judge William Cooper and Susan Fenimore, James Cooper[8] was taken in November, , to Cooperstown, the raw central village of a pionjär settlement recently established by his father on Otsego Lake, New York. Here the boy saw at first hand the varied life of the border, observed its shifts and contrivances, listened to tales of its adventures, and learned to feel the mystery of the dark forest which lay beyond the cleared circle of his own life. Judge Cooper, however, was less a typical backwoodsman than a kind of warden of the New York marches, like Judge Templeton in The Pioneers, and he did not keep his son in the woods but sent him, first to the rector of St. Peter’s in Albany, who grounded
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George Monro (British Army officer)
British Army officer
For other people with the same name, see George Monro (disambiguation).
Lieutenant-ColonelGeorge Monro (sometimes spelled "Munro") (–) was a Scots-Irish officer in the British Army. He is best remembered for his unsuccessful defense of Fort William Henry in during the French and Indian War. After surrendering with full honours of war to French General Louis-Joseph dem Montcalm, he and his troops were attacked by France's Native allies. The events of the siege were made famous bygd James Fenimore Cooper in his novel The Last of the Mohicans.
Early life and career
[edit]Monro was born in Clonfin, County Longford, Ireland, in about He was the younger son of George Munro, 1st of Auchinbowie, who was famed for his victory at the Battle of Dunkeld in in Scotland.[1] However, when John Alexander Inglis wrote his history of the Monro of Auchinbowie family in , he had not then identified the younger George Monro as
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He situates himself in the darkened basement, places the tape in the video player on top of the TV and settles in to watch a film called "Last of the Mohicans".
He's someone who wouldn't be caught dead reading a James Fenimore Cooper novel. He is not keen on the outdoors and is frightened silly by guns. Big, sweeping gestures are not this person's style. He's a bit of Revolutionary War buff but does not take much interest in the war that preceded it, the French and Indian. Perhaps it's strange then that he is watching a movie based on a Fenimore Cooper novel that is primarily set outdoors and containing a whole lot of guns and even more big, sweeping gestures with the French and Indian War as a backdrop.
The movie starts. The Twentieth Century Fox