Col. Edmund Munro

Col. Edmund Munro is a colonel of the British army, commander of Fort William Henry. The father of Alice and Cora, and the head of a doomed attempt to resist the siege led by Moncalmus, commander of French troops during the French and Indian War. And since the Colonel did not allow the frontier guards to defend their homes, because he needed soldiers to defend the fort, he was known as a tough and inexorable person.

Col. Edmund Munro is an elderly man, very fond of his daughters. At a young age, Munroe went to the West Indies, where he married a woman of Negro descent, the mother of Cora. When Munro's first wife died, he returned to Scotland and married his childish lover, who later gave birth to Alice. Although Munro is a powerful man, the circumstances of the war ultimately leave him closed and ineffective.

Munro later reunited with his daughter Alice and gave Heyward his blessing for their upcoming marriage. But Munro also mourns his daughter Cora, whom he especially loved.