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What Happened to 7,000 People
In the following year, 1778, the Loyalists and Indians mounted a number of vengeance raids on the frontier. In July, the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania (present day Wilkes-Barre) was destroyed. In Sep… more →
My Ancestors and Allied Families - Blog
French and Indian War Events
wrote 4 days ago: For the past few months I’ve been noticing a great amount of people are interested in the Fre … more →
Marker Twofer! #75 Portsmouth Plains and #62 Breakfast Hill.
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wrote 4 weeks ago: These two markers belong together. They both commemorate the same event a few miles apart. Mar … more →
World of Reenacting
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wrote 1 month ago: When someone says “reenacting” images of Union and Confederate soldiers jump into my hea … more →
Meanwhile, back in Europe (1650-1700)
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wrote 1 month ago: Back in England this would be a half century of turmoil triggered by the English Civil wars from 164 … more →
French & Indian War: Causes & Effects
wrote 1 month ago: The French & Indian War is complex and fascinating to some, but a waste of time and unfortunate … more →
A frontier outpost of the British Empire
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wrote 2 months ago: It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of my historic site reviews, but the other day I … more →
Forgotten War: The Struggle for North America
wrote 2 months ago: French & Indian War Grand Encampment at Fort Ticonderoga, courtesy of Fort-Ticonderoga.org A doc … more →
Fort Edward Discovered Underwater
wrote 2 months ago: Beams believed to be from the water bastion of mid-18th Century Fort Edward have been dredged up, in … more →
French and Indian War (7 Years War)
wrote 3 months ago: Ohio History Central (an online encyclopedia of Ohio’s history) has a summary of the French an … more →
Chief Pontiac The Hero?
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wrote 3 months ago: The Proclamation of 1763 was a British decision to limit expansion of colonial settlements west of t … more →
WWLS: What Would Locke Say?
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wrote 3 months ago: As we look back on the American Revolution, there are several big philosophical ideas that penetrate … more →
What's all the Fuss? Part II
wrote 4 months ago: by Stephanie Hanson To pick up where we left off, in 1773, the Americans had become “frenetic tea dr … more →
Women Who Didn’t Make Pottery
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wrote 5 months ago: Women didn’t make pottery. Or rather, an Interpretive Staff Director of an early American life museu … more →
Political Cartoons and the Albany Plan of Union
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wrote 6 months ago: This political cartoon was devised originally as a way to gain support for Franklin’s Albany P … more →
Benjamin Franklin and the Albany Plan of Union
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wrote 6 months ago: The term “salutary neglect” is how historians have come to refer to the way that lack of … more →
Waterways of War: The Struggle for Empire 1754-1763, A Traveler’s Guide to the French & Indian War Forts and Battlefields along America’s Byways in New York and Pennsylvania
wrote 6 months ago: A new guidebook to 19 French and Indian War historic sites invites travelers to follow three state a … more →
Commemorate the 1759 Siege of Niagara
wrote 6 months ago: by Susan Braun With the 4th of July rapidly approaching, history buffs will be flocking to Old Fort … more →
How British Were the Colonists?
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wrote 6 months ago: Carefully observe the information in the chart on this page before continuing. With a keen eye this … more →
Revolutionary Myth #4: All was well before the war
wrote 6 months ago: Part four of our series on 5 Myths about the Revolutionary War dwells on the pre-war period. In the … more →
