January 6 has an older meaning- It is the 12th Day of Christmas - 3 Kings Day - "The Epiphany"
Nicholas Cresswell, an Englishman who spent years in Virginia and kept a journal, wrote while in Alexandria on December 25, 1774:...
Lyttelton's Expedition has left - Tricky Trader John Elliott's end
There were 3 expeditions threatening the Cherokee country. Each one was progressively worse for the Cherokees. The first one, run by SC...
Who is at Fort Loudoun Winchester VA in the 1760-1761?
Major Robert Stewart, Colonel Robert Byrd III, Lt Colonel Stephen Adam, Major Andrew Lewis, Lt Charles Smith and Rev Andrew Barnaby are...
Sardonic Reasons for Giving Back Canada 27 Dec 1759
Ben Franklin, almost aged 53 is still in England. He anticipated a sell out peace under King George II. But the real sell out did not...
Lyttelton's Treaty with the Cherokees 26 Dec 1759 - Part IV
The treaty stipulated on 26 Dec 1759, among other things, that 24 “murderers,” Cherokees accused of revenge killings of white settlers,...
Christmas 1753-1759
No diary by George Washington appears for 1759. That was a year of settling in. It was the first year of George Washington's marriage to...
Voltaire publishes Candide in 1759 and our Admiral Byng is in it
This fantastical novella was published in English in the same year of 1759 it got printed in French. Candide's visit at Portsmouth...
Alexander Hamilton at 4 years old
Because we look at anything connected to Fort Loudoun and Virginia as well as George Washington during these French and Indian War years,...
Lyttelton's Expediton Part III - the salute or salute? at Keowee
This Keowee town sat on cliffs high above Fort Prince George. Nowadays the Fort's site sits below the water in a Reservoir created in...
Lyttelton's Expediton II - in an enchanted, dangerous forest
If ever you've been in the woods alone for a good length of time when out of the mist materializes a large doe jumping almost at you, and...
