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1756-1763 A Dark and Bloody Ground - Peter Dennis

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1756-1763  Fusiliers Marins - Peter Dennis

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Weapons and equipment from the Seven Years War.

OTDIH, May 10 1773 the Tea Act was passed. Resistance to the Tea Act would eventually lead to the start of the American Revolution. Read the Boston Gazette and Country Journal for May 10, 1773 here. 

AlsoOTDIH: 

1756: The House of Burgesses hires 4 ships to transport Acadian deportees from Virginia to Britain (The governor of Virginia was worried that the Acadians would conspire with slaves and Indians in the French & Indian War)

1756: Sir William Johnson nearly loses his life to friendly fire

1775 – Representatives from the 13 Colonies begin the 2nd Continental Congress

1775 Alexander Hamilton prevented a mob from lynching King’s College President Myles Cooper.

1780: Lafayette arrives at winter headquarters in Morristown

I will never not reblog Seven Years’ War era unis. Sexiest unis of the 18th/19th century.