The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign

      THE SHADOW
     OF THE NORTH

A STORY OF OLD NEW YORK
AND A LOST CAMPAIGN

BY

JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER

         1917

FOREWORD

“The Shadow of the North,” while an independent story, in itself, is
also the second volume of the Great French and Indian War series which
began with “The Hunters of the Hills.”  All the important characters of
the first romance reappear in the second.

CHARACTERS IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR SERIES

ROBERT LENNOX               A lad of unknown origin
TAYOGA                      A young Onondaga warrior
DAVID WILLET                A hunter
RAYMOND LOUIS DE ST. LUC    A brilliant French officer
AGUSTE DE COURCELLES        A French officer
FRANÇOIS DE JUMÓNVILLE      A French officer
LOUIS DE GALISONNIÈRE       A young French officer
JEAN DE MÉZY                A corrupt Frenchman
ARMAN GLANDELET             A young Frenchman
PIERRE BOUCHER              A bully and bravo
PHILIBERT DROUILLAR         A French priest
THE MARQUIS DUQUESNE        Governor-General of Canada
MARQUIS DE VAUDREUIL        Governor-General of Canada
FRANÇOIS BIGOT              Intendant of Canada
MARQUIS DE MONTCALM         French commander-in-chief
DE LEVIS                    A French general
BOURLAMAQUE                 A French general
BOUGAINVILLE                A French general
ARMAND DUBOIS               A follower of St. Luc
M. DE CHATILLARD            An old French Seigneur
CHARLES LANGLADE            A French partisan
THE DOVE                    The Indian wife of Langlade
TANDAKORA                   An Ojibway chief
DAGANOWEDA                  A young Mohawk chief
HENDRICK                    An old Mohawk chief
BRADDOCK                    A British general
ABERCROMBIE                 A British general
WOLFE                       A British general
COL.  WILLIAM JOHNSON        Anglo-American leader
MOLLY BRANT                 Col.  Wm. Johnson’s Indian wife
JOSEPH BRANT                Young brother of Molly Brant,
afterward the great Mohawk
chief, Thayendanegea
ROBERT DINWIDDIE            Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia
WILLIAM SHIRLEY             Governor of Massachusetts
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN           Famous American patriot
JAMES COLDEN                A young Philadelphia captain
WILLIAM WILTON              A young Philadelphia lieutenant
HUGH CARSON                 A young Philadelphia lieutenant
JACOBUS HUYSMAN             An Albany burgher
CATERINA                    Jacobus Huysman’s cook
ALEXANDER MCLEAN            An Albany schoolmaster
BENJAMIN HARDY              A New York merchant
JOHNATHAN PILLSBURY         Clerk to Benjamin Hardy
ADRIAN VAN ZOON             A New York merchant
THE SLAVER                  A nameless rover
ACHILLE GARAY               A French spy
ALFRED GROSVENOR            A young English officer
JAMES CABELL                A young Virginian
WALTER STUART               A young Virginian
BLACK RIFLE                 A famous “Indian fighter”
ELIHU STRONG                A Massachusetts colonel
ALAN HERVEY                 A New York financier
STUART WHYTE                Captain of the British sloop,
<i>Hawk</i>
JOHN LATHAM                 Lieutenant of the British sloop,
<i>Hawk</i>
EDWARD CHARTERIS            A young officer of the Royal Americans
ZEBEDEE CRANE               A young scout and forest runner
ROBERT ROGERS               Famous Captain of American Rangers