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Links of Interest:

  • King George II, British Monarch over American Colonies

  • French and Indian War Timeline 1754-1763

  • Britain declares war on France known as the Seven Years War.

  • Literature

  • Last of the Mohicans

    A fictional narrative of 1757 about the French and Indian War in e-book form published in 1826 by James Fenimore Cooper  (1789-1851). One of the most widely read American novels of the nineteenth century. "It was in this scene of strife and bloodshed that the incidents we shall attempt to relate occurred, during the third year of the war which England and France last waged for the possession of a country that neither was destined to retain." Chapter 1

  • Technology:

  • John Harrison, 64 year old English carpenter, completes H3, a 60 pound timekeeper for determining longitude at sea eventually making it possible for England to control the shipping trade.
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    Lasky, Kathryn. The Man Who Made Time Travel. Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2003.
    Sobel, Dava. Longitude. New York: Walker, 1995.

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