Vaudreuil, Gov., treats Indians with kindness.... the English..... Vaudreuil calls all able-bodied citizens to rms.. dians... Virginia contractors fail to prepare for transportation of Braddock's army.. Voyagers, French..... PAGE 23 56 319 18 284 27 Walker's, Sir Hovenden, fleet sails for Canada.. 55 13 237 Washington, Lawrence.. 236 Washington, George, born Feb. 22d, 1732. 116 Washington in love with Mary Philipse. Washington fails to be commissioned by King.. Washington's anxiety to capture Fort Du Quesne... 372 376 379 446 Whitfield, George, succeeds Wesleys in Georgia........ 183 Winslow, John, Maj. Gen. Massachusetts militia... 207 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 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, making the Six Nations. TREATY OF UTRECHT closed Queen Anne's war, 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; Carteret 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 declared, -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. War,-Oct. 18. 1748. TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE closed King George's (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 ALBANY CONVENTION adopted a plan of union pre- 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 FORT GASPEREAU surrendered to the British, -June 17. BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT on the Monongahela River, JOHNSON established Fort William Henry; re- 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,(Massacre by Indians after Monroe Aug. 9. capitulated.) 1758. LORD HOWE killed in a fight near Ticonderoga, July 6. ABERCROMBIE repulsed by Montcalm at Ticonderoga,-July 8. LOUISBURG, N. S., taken by Amherst and Boscowen, --July 2. FORT FRONTENAC (now Kingston, Canada) sur- GRANT defeated by Aubrey at Fort Duquesne, — FORT DUQUESNE captured by English; named Fort 1759. FORT NIAGARA surrendered to Johnson; death of Prideaux,-July 25. |
