Skeletal remains of more than a dozen British soldiers who died during
the French and Indian War are expected to be returned this year to
upstate New York for reburial near their original resting place on a
Colonial American battleground.

The skeletons originally had been buried outside Fort William Henry
between its construction in 1755 and its destruction by the French two
years later, a historical event depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's
"The Last of the Mohicans." Two years ago, fort officials publicly
acknowledged for the first time that the skeletons had been taken in
the late 1990s by an Arizona State University anthropologist.

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Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library