Jeanne Coeur; her father the young Vicomte de Contrecoeur, of the Regiment de la Reine--not that stupid Captain Contrecoeur of the regiment of Languedoc, who, had it depended on him, would never have ventured to attack Braddock at all.
"This is true, because I knew them both--both of these Contrecoeur captains.

And the picture she showed to me was that of the officer in the Regiment de la Reine.
"I saw that regiment die almost to a man.

I saw Dieskau fall; I saw that gay young officer, de Contrecoeur, who had nicknamed himself Jean Coeur, laugh at our Iroquois as he stood almost alone--almost the last man living, among his fallen white-coats.
"And I saw him dead, Loskiel--the smile still on his dead lips, and his eyes still open and clear and seeming to laugh up at the white clouds sailing, which he could not see.
"That was the man she showed me painted on polished bone." "And--her mother ?" I asked.
"I can only guess, Loskiel, for I never saw her.

But I believe she must have been with the army.

Somehow, Sir William's Senecas got hold of her and took her to Catharines-town.