not and they thereby broke the rules of dignified fighting in exchange for a cheap step towards victory in the war. The Indians terrified the French, even though they were allies with them. They feared that if they angered the Indians too much by not letting them fulfill their intent of the British, the Natives would retaliate against them. Just as the Indians put their goal of war above that of following European war conduct, the French placed winning the procession of America above the codes chivalry also. To the French, that is the main goal, winning the war. This comes first and never second to being a gentleman, or following rules of war. The Indians are but savages that live by inferior means of moral conduct, but the French were the overseers of the Indians, the father figure. They did little within their power to protect the British troops and their families from a massacre that represented dishonor, chaos and evasion. Now the French have little claim to the title gentlemen, and they will forever be remembered as nothing but weasels of war at the deceitful, ferocious massacre of Ft. William Henry....
