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bloody and inhuman scene which we have rather incidentally mentioned than described, in the close of the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of colonial history, by the merited title of "The massacre of William Henry." It so far deepened the stain which a previous and very similar event had left upon the reputation of the French commander, that it was not entirely erased by his early and glorious death. It is now becoming obscured by time; and thousands, who know that Montcalm died like a hero on the