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| South America & Caribbean:Unfortunately Ensenada's treachery (below) is already in motion. By December the British report that loggers on the coast of Belize had been expelled and their ships seized. The loggers had been tolerated for many years and the legality of their presence was a matter of long diplomacy. The matter worsens when the Governor of Jamaica sends an armed force to restore and defend the loggers. |
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| North America:George Washington suffers defeat twice as French forces press claims of Ohio Valley. Fort Duquesne is built at one of the sites which is later Pittsburgh. British colonial leaders meet with Iroquois Nations to plan defense against French agression. Ben Franklin suggests a voluntary union of all of the British North American colonies. King's College in New York will become Columbia University. Christ Church in Philadelphia completed and is the tallest structure in North America. | |||||||||||
| Europe:Carvajal, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs dies suddenly. He is replaced by Don Ricardo Wall. Benjamin Keene is overjoyed and gives Wall the evidence he has been collecting on Ensenada. When the King sees the incriminating papers Ensenada is dismissed. Keene is made a Knight of the Bath. George II allows Ferdinand to perform the ceremony which occurs on the Spanish monarch's birthday September 23. Paintings by Francois Boucher; Hogarth; golf club in Scotland. Iron rolling mill in England. |
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On the Fourth of July 1754 a force of 600 regular French troops and 100 Indians assembled from Louisiana posts of Natchitoches, Opelousas, Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The force, under the command of François Coulon Jumonville de Villiers (1713-1794), was facing a young colonial commander named George Washington, 21. Although war had not yet been declared the French and British were fighting for supremacy of the new world. Washington had lead an ambush of French soldiers on May 28 and had killed 10 and captured 21. Among the dead was Ensign Joseph Coulon de Jumonville de Villiers, brother of François. Jumonville proved himself a generous foe. Having killed 40 and wounded 75 British the previous day, he felt his brother avenged. Washington was to march the rest of his garrison from Fort Necessity and not return for at least a year, after admitting they had killed the Frenchmen while they were under a flag of truce. The fort was demolished and the cannon spiked. |
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| Fort St. Leon in Bellechasse on the West Bank of Plaquemines Parish is designed by De Verges and garrisoned, but it will be abandoned in 1792. Because of its strategic value it will be rebuilt by Latour in 1808 and garrisoned to defend New Orleans. The fort is destroyed by Adm. Farragut during the Civil War in the Union s advance up the river. | Mon Plaisir Plantation house is built on the west bank of the Mississippi River opposite the city of New Orleans by the Chevalier de Pradel. It was destroyed long ago. | The Malarcher Plantation mansion of LeChevalier Louis Malarcher (1754-1841) was destroyed in the levee break which created the Nita Crevasse near Convent in St James Parish. Malarcher is a political refugee of French Revolution who becomes an influential citizen of St. James Parish. A second House was built in 1891 by his grandson and is owned by B. F. Goodrich (Convent Chemical Corporation). |
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