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Vaudreuil, Gov., treats Indians with kindness...... 23
Vaudreuil, Gov., of Canada, prepares to defend against

the English. ......... ...................... 56
Vaudreuil calls all able-bodied citizens to arms...... 319
Village of Deerfield attacked by French and In-
dians...................

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Virginia contractors fail to prepare for transportation

of Braddock's army...
Voyagers, French.........
Walker's, Sir Hovenden, fleet sails for Canada...
War declared between England and France.....

13
Washington, Augustine, death of.
Washington, Lawrence. ...,

236
Washington, George, born Feb. 220, 1732.

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Washington, George, early life..

234
Washington's mother.....

238
Washington as a surveyor........

249
Washington commissioned Major..

250
Washington and Dinwiddie..........
Washington a Lieutenant-Colonel..
Washington fires first gun in French and Indian war

for Ohio Valley .......... ................. 264
Washington accepts a place on Braddock's staff, 284
Washington left behind....

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Washington singled out by an Indian marksman..
Washington saves Braddock's army..

311
Washington induced to appeal to Shirley........ 361
Washington's journey to New York..
Washington in New York...........

368
Washington in love with Mary Philipse .............
Washington fails to be commissioned by King....... 376
Washington in Virginia legislature, planning to cap-

ture Fort Du Quesne, learns that Morris has

won Mary Philipse..... ............... 379
Washington's anxiety to capture Fort Du Quesne.... 446

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Washington cent to Loyal Hanna, captures Fort Du
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448
Washington's courtship and marriage....

450
Wesley, John, and To-mo-chi-chi. .........
Wesleys, John and Charles, in Georgia............
Wesleys leave Georgia.....
Whitfield, George, succeeds Wesleys in Georgia..
Williams, Col. Ephraim, killed.
Williams, Rev. John, captured.....
Williams, Rev. John, account of captivity..
Williams, Mrs., murdered...
Williams, Eunice, marries a Mohawk..
Winslow, John, Maj. -Gen. Massachusetts militia...
Winslow's, Gen., speech to Acadians. ....
Wolfe, Gen., sent to capture Quebec...

406
Wolfe before Quebec.....

410
Wolfe at Point Levi......
Wolfe reconnoitring....

414
Wolfe makes an abortive attack..

416
Wolfe sick.........

417
Wolfe's letter to Pitt......

418
Wolfe's opinion of Gray's Elegy....

420
Wolfe, death of.....

426
Yamacraw Bluff selected by Oglethorpe as place for
settlement.. .....

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Yamacraw and Yamasee Indians' treaty with Ogle-
thorpe..............

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Youghiogeny, Washington and soldiers on.......... 261
Young Pretender...

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CHRONOLOGY.

PERIOD VIII.-AGE OF CONTENTION OF POWERS

FOR SUPREMACY.

A.D. 1700 TO A.D. 1763.

1702. ACCESSION OF ANNE to the throne of Great Britain,

- March 8. QUEEN ANNE'S WAR began,-Great Britain against

France and Spain,-lasted eleven years. 1704. FIRST PERMANENT NEWSPAPER in America, the

Boston News-Letter, - April 24. 1710. PORT ROYAL, N. S., captured by the British and

named Annapolis, -Oct. 2. 1711. INDIAN WAR with the Corees in North Carolina. 1713. TUSCARORAS join the Iroquois in New York, mak

ing the Six Nations.
TREATY OF UTRECHT closed Queen Anne's war, -

April 11. (This treaty gave Great Britain the
Hudson Bay region, Newfoundland and

Acadia.) 1714. ACCESSION OF GEORGE I. to throne of England,

Aug. 1. 1715. Yammassee War in Carolina. 1718. NEW ORLEANS founded by the French under Bien.

ville. 1727. ACCESSION OF GEORGE II. to the throne of England, -June 11.

1729. CAROLINA divided, -Clarendon, or Middle Colony,

moved to Charleston. ALBEMARLE Colony became North Carolina ; Car.

teret Colony became South Carolina. 1732. WASHINGTON born in Westmoreland County, Va.,

Feb. 22.
GEORGIA granted to Oglethorpe ; included part of

Carolina, June 9. 1733. SAVANNAH, GA., founded by Oglethorpe, - Feb.

12. 1639. SPANISH WAR between Great Britain and Spain de

clared, -Oct. 23. (This, with King George's

War, lasted nine years.) 1740. INVASION OF FLORIDA by Oglethorpe. 1742. INVASION OF GEORGIA by the Spanish. 1744. SPANISH WAR merged into King George's War;

France allied with Spain. 1745, LOUISBURG, the Gibraltar of America, captured by

Pepperell, -June 17. 1748. TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE closed King George's

War, -Oct. 18. (Both parties restored their

respective conquests.) 1749. OHIO COMPANY, of London, received a grant of

6,000,000 acres on Ohio River. 1751. NEW STYLE Gregorian Calendar adopted by Great

Britain, -eleven days out, Sept. 3 to 14. 1753. WASHINGTON sent to Fort Le Boeuf by Governor

Dinwiddie of Virginia. 1754. WASHINGTON returned to Williamsburg, -Jan. 6.

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR,-most important of the

Colonial Wars.
WASHINGTON defeated Jumonville at Mountain

Meadows, - May 28.
ALBANY CONVENTION adopted a plan of union pre-

pared by Franklin, -June 19. (The plan re-
jected by crown and people.)

WASHINGTON defeated at Fort Necessity by De

Villiers,—June 3. 1755. ALEXANDRIA CONVENTION, Va. ; Colonial governors

met Braddock, - April 14.
FORT BEAU SÉJOUR, N. S., surrendered to the

British,-June 16.
FORT GASPEREAU surrendered to the British, -June

17.
BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT on the Monongahela River,

Pa.,--Braddock mortally wounded, -July 9. EVICTION of Acadians from Grand Pré,-Sept. 5. BATTLE OF LAKE GEORGE; Lyman under Johnson

defeated Dieskau,-Sept. 8. JOHNSON established Fort William Henry; re

ceived a baronetcy and £5,000. 1756. WAR declared by Great Britain after two years'

fighting, -May 18. MONTCALM captured Oswego, 1,400 men, stores and

money, -Aug. 14. 1757. FORT WILLIAM HENRY surrendered to Montcalm,

Aug. 9. (Massacre by Indians after Monroe

capitulated.) 1758. LORD HOwe killed in a fight near Ticonderoga,

July 6.
ABERCROMBIE repulsed by Montcalm at Ticonder-

oga, -July 8.
LOUISBURG, N. S., taken by Amherst and Bos-

cowen, --July 2. FORT FRONTENAC (now Kingston, Canada) sur

rendered to Bradstreet, -Aug. 27.
GRANT defeated by Aubrey at Fort Duquesne, --

Sept. 21.
FORT DUQUESNE captured by English; named Fort

Pitt (now Pittsburg), -Nov. 25. 1759. FORT NIAGARA surrendered to Johnson ; death of

Prideaux, -July 25.