Description:
Cast bronze sculptural group on a painted wooden base created by New England artist Jud Hartmann, the middle figure with a tomahawk and rifle is Amrusus, a Kanien’kehá:ka Mohawk warrior, who later married one of the English captives, Eunice, daughter of the Reverend John Williams of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The rear figure is Thaovenhosen, a Huron Chief and one of the Indian leaders and chief of the Hurons who accompanied the French commander Hertel on the February 29th raid on Deerfield in 1704. Along with the Kanien’kehá:ka Mohawk and the Abenaki, the Hurons of Lorette were strong, dependable allies of the French. Another remnant of the Hurons fled eastward with the surviving Jesuits to establish the village of Lorette outside Quebec city in the 1650's. Lorette survives to this day. Thaovenhosen, the tall, impressive chief of the Hurons of Lorette, was clearly an astute military strategist. Just before first light, he advised them, "March not steadily on the English fort lest our footsteps crunching on the crust will awaken the sleeping foe and put him on his guard. Advance by a rush, then halt; then rush on and halt again. The sound in the sleeping Englishman's ears will seem but the North wind blowing in gusts."
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