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| South America & Caribbean:Events of this year in this region influencing Louisiana. |
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| North America:French possessions in Canada surrender to the British. Both commanders Wolfe and Montcalm suffer mortal wounds at Quebec City. French also lose at Fort Ticonderoga. Fort Duquesne is refortified and named Fort Pitt. |
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| Europe: The French treasury has been drained by war and profligate spending by the royal court. Prussia suffers some reverses in the Seven Years War. Ferdinand VI of Spain dies and is succeeded by his half brother Charles III who will be accepting the province of Louisiana from his French cousin Louis in a few years. Candide by Voltaire; fiction by Samuel Johnson; painting by Joshua Reynolds and Hogarth. Guiness builds a brewery in Dublin. |
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In New Orleans the new hospital is almost completed (in the square bordered by Chartres, Barracks, Decatur and Governor Nicholls) and the old barracks flanking the Place d'Armes have been demolished. The soldiers are housed in the unfinished hospital. It later becomes permanent barracks. The Prevost house is rented for the Governor and a small Intendance is built at the corner of Levee and Toulouse. This building later becomes the capital building and serves through the Spanish Period until it burns down in 1828. |
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