Enlightenment · North America · War
1744
King George's War Begins
March 15, 1744
France declared war on Britain, extending the European conflict to North America. Massachusetts prepared to attack the great French fortress at Louisbourg. Along the Ohio frontier, young Americans began to notice what empire was beginning to demand of them, and what it was beginning to owe them. The capture of Louisbourg by New England militia in 1745, only to see it returned by diplomats, left colonists bitter.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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