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| North America:French fort building gets too close to British settlements. George Washington is sent late in the year to demand that Fort Presqu'Isle and Fort Le Boeuf be vacated. Conestoga wagons first built in Pennsylvania. | |||||||||||
| Europe:Benjamin Keene, the British ambassador at Madrid, is looking for a way to counter the new French ambassador, the Duc de Duras. He believes that the most effective means is to secure the dismissal of Ensenada, who he knows to be involved in various intrigues to encourage hostilities between Spain and Great Britain. British Museum begins. |
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April 28 Outgoing governor Vaudrueil and new governor Louis Billouart de Kerlerec send a joint letter to Paris asking for new barracks and a new hospital. The barracks, which flank the Place de Armes suffer from poor foundations of locally made bricks. |
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December 1753
December 4 A new Hospital designed by Deverges is approved. It is completed in 1759. |
| First theatrical production in New Orleans. The author is Lablanc Villeneuve, an officer in the garrison of governor Pierre Francois de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil Cavagnal. It is based on a true story about the mishaps of a Colapissa Indian chief who murders a Choctaw and then flees to New Orleans to hide out. The chief÷s father agrees to die and be tortured in his son÷s place. | In 1753 the French regimental adjutant leases the right to distribute guildive (or tafia), a brandy made from sugar cane that is foul tasting and smelling but is enjoyed by blacks, Native Americans and settlers in the far reaches of Louisiana because it inebriates and costs less than French Brandy. | Plans and drawings by Dumont de Montigny this year add little to knowledge of the growth of New Orleans. |
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