The Last of the Mohicans can be used as a historical source is some ways, while in others it cannot. The setting of the movie and how they portrayed the British and the French fighting is accurate. The event in the movie where Colonel Duncan Munro and his British troops were attacked in an open field by the Huron was grisly and not exactly how it happened in the actual event. They also left out the reaction of Montcalm when the Huron disobeyed him, which would have been a disgrace for him. One of the things that were inconsistent with the time and place was how Mann modernized the behavior of the key characters. The movie also seems fixed on romance. It’s hard to believe that Cora would be attracted to Nathaniel since she was from a higher
