After surrendering with full honours of war to French General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, he and his troops were attacked by France's Native allies.

The British were accorded the full honours of war by being allowed to keep their colours, muskets and a single symbolic cannon.

As Monro led his garrison from Fort William Henry the next day, the Native American warriors attacked the British soldiers and killed approximately 185 of them.

[4][3] Colonel Munro is portrayed in James Fenimore Cooper's story The Last of the Mohicans, in which he is the father of two daughters, Alice and Cora.

(In reality Munro never married or had children)[5] In the story, he plays a similar role as he did in history, leading the defense of Fort William Henry.

[20] He is a member of the Templar Order and assists Christopher Gist and the protagonist Shay Patrick Cormac until he is killed by Assassin Liam O'Brien in Albany after the fall of Fort William Henry.