Robert Stewart's Report about his rank in Sept 1759
George Washington's Virginia Regiment had many leaders who strived for a better station in life. Like Marlon Brando said in The...
George Mercer's Report on "Pittsburg" Sept 1759
After Fort Duquesne fell 25 Nov 1758, General Forbes did not immediately name it Fort Pitt. There was no officially named Fort Pitt or a...
George Mercer's Report on Thomas Bullitt Sept 1759
George Mercer writes a letter on 16 Sept 1759 to a retired Colonel George Washington. It contains a lot of details. The focus here is on...
The Song: Why Soldiers Why?
A song that asks a question? Why Soldiers Why?. Maybe James Wolfe sang this the night before he died on the Plains of Abraham in the...
George Mercer's Report on Fort Pleasant in Sept 1759
Mercer wrote Bouquet from Fort Pleasant on the South Branch of the Potomac in Virginia on 13 Sept.[1759], saying that he had “been to...
Halley's Comet named in 1759
A Frenchman, Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762) during the year of miracles of English victories over the...
Meet John Mercer, father, lawyer and Custis Inheritance
Washington pays his neighbor and lawyer, John Mercer, for help on the Dunbar lawsuit on the Custis estate inheritance 1 Sept 1759. John...
Sounds like arguments about China today?
So war threatened shutting down a trade of 50,000 deerskins a year just in Charleston SC alone. And full out war is coming. August 1759...
Same as it ever was, Debt and Division of labor
"And all the beads we made by hand are nowadays made in Japan." That's a lyric written in the 70s (to a 1959 song) when Japan's economy...
The Walking Purchase of 1737 still a Swindle in 1759 & 2004
On 29 August 1759, Ben Franklin has been in London going on 2 years, presents a petition to the King's Privy Council. Among one of his...
