How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe. (1.1)
The last phrase of the passage reminds us that the Europeans are following orders from the "distant monarchs of Europe." This passage illustrates that the stresses of the forest bring out the fact that the war being fought is kind of ridiculous and abstract—the soldiers' puppet strings are being held by a couple of old farts wearing crowns a whole ocean away.
Quote #5
"Not a warrior has a scalp, and the pale faces make friends!" (17.17)
Here we see that the motivations for the massacre are, essentially, Native American discontent with the terms of the truce. Yup: this novel shows us one of many (many, many) examples of white settlers screwing over Native Americans.
Quote #6
As he mused he became keenly sensible of the deep responsibility they assume who disregard the means to attain the end, and of all the danger of setting in motion an engine which it exceeds human power to control. (17.35)
Montcalm could not have prevented the massacre at Fort William Henry once he chose to ally himself with Native American tribes. It's also a bigger lesson of not starting something you don't know how to end.