Goodbye King George II
King George II died 25 Oct 1760 , aged 76. As of Thursday 11 Dec 1760, the last day of House of Burgesses session, there is no mention...
The World in Transition in December 1760
Russian troops enter Berlin. A leader of the english speaking world dies. Sounds like World War II, but this is really the first world...
Cherokee War Epilogue 1760-1762
In here are excerpts from Virginia's upper chamber, The Council. Sometimes called the Board in its journals, this body had different...
The Point
Winchester's early growith as one of the largest "Backcountry" towns in the colonies is diue to the French Fort Duquesne located at what...
GW finds two of the largest Sycamores on the Planet
Here is a picture of a Sycamore close to the dimensions George Washington found. Close, but no cigar. This one is 24' 7" George...
Postmortem by Forbes: The Indian Ohio country for the 1760s
Forbes predicts the future. Would have been able to stop the western migration juggernaut? Everything he warns about, comes to pass in...
Postmortem by Forbes: Myrmidons for the 1760s
If only Forbes had survived. If only he lived to be made commander of the Pittsburg area, resisting the intentions of Virginia and...
John Adams' the Mob Majority Opinion like the Plague
John Adams has been wondering way before 1805, that this new nation is going to hell in a handbasket. . He likens the plague to mob...
William Pitt - The Elder but also a "Disrupter"
Does this look familiar? Excerpt In the mid-1700s, the British Empire was at an inflection point. The nation had just fought two wars...
Pursuit of Happiness? Or Happiness itself?
Arthur M Schlesinger claims it is Happiness itself, not the pursuing of it. That is the meaning Jefferson intended in the Declaration...
