Chapter 19: XVIII

XVIII Why, anything: An honorable murderer, if you will; For naught I did in hate, but all in honor. Othello The bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than described in 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 hi…