The two braves quarrelled about the reward; and the more sensitive of them, as a protest against the unfairness of the other, tomahawked the young lady.  The usual retaliations were proposed under the popular titles of justice and so forth; but as the tribe of the slayer would certainly have followed suit by a massacre of whites on the Canadian frontier, Burgoyne was compelled to forgive the crime, to the intense disgust of indignant Christendom.

BRUDENELL

Brudenell is also a real person.  At least an artillery chaplain of that name distinguished himself at Saratoga by reading the burial service over Major Fraser under fire, and by a quite readable adventure, chronicled by Burgoyne, with Lady Harriet Ackland.  Lady Harriet’s husband achieved the remarkable feat of killing himself, instead of his adversary, in a duel.  He overbalanced himself in the heat of his swordsmanship, and fell with his head against a pebble.  Lady Harriet then married the warrior chaplain, who, like Anthony Anderson in the play, seems to have mistaken his natural profession.

The rest of the Devil’s Disciple may have actually occurred, like most stories invented by dramatists; but I cannot produce any documents.  Major Swindon’s name is invented; but the man, of course, is real.  There are dozens of him extant to this day.