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Amazon.com    The shores of Lakes George and Champlain were
ravaged by war. Up and down those lovely waters swept the barges
of French and English, and the green hills rang to the shrill of
bugles, the boom of cannon, and the yell of savages. Fiction and
history have been weft across the woods and the memory of deeds
still echoes among the heights. It was at Glen's Falls, in the
cave on the rock in the middle of the river, that the brave
Uncas held the watch with Hawkeye. Bloody Defile and Bloody
Pond, between there and Lake George, take their names from the
"Bloody morning scout" sent out by Sir William Johnson on a
September day in 1755 to check Dieskau until Fort William Henry
could be completed. In the action that ensued, Colonel Williams,
founder of Williams College, and Captain Grant, of the
Connecticut line, great-grandfather of the President who bore
that name, were killed. The victims, dead and wounded alike,
having been flung into Bloo