He captured nearby Fort Beauséjour in 1755 and is also known for his roles as second-in-command at the Plains of Abraham, for capturing Martinique, as Governor of New York and also for his participation in the Great Upheaval.

Construction on the star-shaped fort, which Lotbinière based on designs of the renowned French military engineer Vauban, began in October 1755 and then proceeded slowly during the warmer-weather months of 1756 and 1757, using troops stationed at nearby Fort St. Frédéric and from Canada.

During the battle Braddock was wounded, dying on July 13, 1755, in nearby Uniontown.

Walili ' structures were damaged by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, while in the 18th century part of the marble was taken for constructions in nearby Meknes.

Beginning June 3, 1755, a British army under Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Monckton staged out of nearby Fort Lawrence, besieged the small French garrison at Fort Beauséjour with the goal of opening the Isthmus of Chignecto to British control.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

* 1755 – French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.

The 1755 British capture of Fort Beauséjour on the border separating Nova Scotia from Acadia was followed by its policy to deport the French inhabitants.

Braddock ( with George Washington as one of his aides ) led about 1, 500 army troops and provincial militia on an expedition in June 1755 to take Fort Duquesne.

Colonel Monckton, in the only true British success that year, captured Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, cutting the French fortress at Louisbourg off from land-based reinforcements.

In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon.

They constructed Fort Ashby in 1755, which is the last standing unit in the chain of forts built under the orders of George Washington.

General Edward Braddock's expeditionary march to Fort Duquesne crossed through this area in 1755 on the way to Fort Cumberland.

Fort Bridgman, Vernon, was burned in 1755, a casualty of the French and Indian War.

Later, as a Colonel in 1755, he was to accompany General Braddock on the old Indian Trail that ran through the valley on his way to Fort Cumberland.

North of the mountain ridge known as Cape Horn, near the Connecticut River, are the remains of Fort Wentworth, built by the New Hampshire Militia in 1755 during the French and Indian War.

The Braddock Expedition, particularly his crossing of the Monongahela River on July 9, 1755 at this place, led to the British general's own fatal wounding and a sound defeat of his troops who had been moving against the French at Fort Duquesne.

In 1755, Colonel George Washington gave orders to build a stockade and fort ( Fort Ashby ) on the eastern side of Patterson Creek.

St Clair accompanied Braddock on his ill-fated march on Fort Duquesne and his disastrous defeat on July 9, 1755.

In spring 1755, Washington returned to the area to prepare for General Edward Braddock's attack on Fort Duquesne ( commonly referred to as Braddock's March ).

The French, who had started construction on Fort Carillon in 1755, used it as a launching point for the successful siege of Fort William Henry in 1757.

The British defeated France in Acadia in the Battle of Fort Beausejour ( 1755 ) and then Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) ( which also administered Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) with the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ).

In 1755, General Edward Braddock led an expedition against the French Fort Duquesne, and although they were numerically superior to the French militia and their Indian allies, Braddock's army was routed and Braddock was killed.

In July 1755, Clive returned to India to act as deputy governor of Fort St. David at Cuddalore.

They speak of his 1755 efforts to help British Redcoats led by Braddock in their march to defeat the French at Fort Dusquesne ( in today's Pittsburgh ).

In 1755, the British were successful in the Battle of Beausejour and immediately after began the expulsion of the Acadians.

In 1755, when the French and Indian War widened, he saw action at the Battle of Fort Beausejour.

They also resisted the initial British occupation of Chignecto ( 1750 ) and later fought against them in the Battle of Beausejour ( 1755 ).

The British ordered the expulsion of the Acadians after the Battle of Beausejour ( 1755 ).

The following day the British forces attacked Fort Beausejour, and on June 16, 1755 the French forces evacuated to Fort Gaspereaux, arriving at Louisbourg on June 24, 1755.

* Chris M. Hand, The Siege of Fort Beausejour 1755, 2004, Fredercton: Goose Lane Editions and the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project.

* Chris M. Hand, The Siege of Fort Beausejour 1755, 2004, Fredercton: Goose Lane Editions and the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project.

Fort Beausejour and St. Louis Catholic Church ( c. 1755 )

Fort Beausejour 1755

Fort Beausejour 1755

Fort Beausejour 1755

The Republic of Genoa was strong enough to keep Corsica until 1755, the year Pasquale Paoli proclaimed the Corsican Republic.

Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.

John Smeaton made an important contribution to the development of cements when he was planning the construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( 1755 – 9 ) in the English Channel.

It was destroyed along with much of the town in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

The first nation in modern history to adopt a democratic constitution was the short-lived Corsican Republic in 1755.

Joseph Allen died in 1755 ; at the time of his death he was one of the wealthier landowners in the area, ran a successful farm, and had previously served as town selectman.

Algarotti's Essay on the Opera ( 1755 ) was a major influence on the librettist Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni and the composer Tommaso Traetta, and in the development of Gluck's reformist ideology.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

Her first appearance on the stage was at Haymarket in 1755 as Miranda in Mrs Centlivre's play, Busybody.

Both France and Great Britain were ready to fight for control of the region and both sent troops to North America in 1755 ; war was formally declared in 1756.

In 1755, Washington was the senior American aide to British General Edward Braddock on the ill-fated Braddock expedition.

Equally influential was Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu ( 1689 – 1755 ).

Scotland was a poor rural, agricultural society with a population of 1. 3 million in 1755.

He became Commissioner of Native American Affairs in 1755, and was elected to the South Carolina Colonial Council.

In 1755, within a month of being offered command of this vessel, he volunteered for service in the Royal Navy, when Britain was re-arming for what was to become the Seven Years ' War.

In October and November 1755 he took part in Eagles capture of one French warship and the sinking of another, following which he was promoted to boatswain in addition to his other duties.

While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.

After being employed as organist at Raab in 1755 and Maria Taferl in 1757, he was appointed Thurnermeister back at Melk Abbey.

In 1755, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Alexander Hamilton, the statesman and one of the founding fathers of the United States, was born on Nevis around 1755, and spent a significant part of his childhood there.

The first opera written in Russian was Tsefal i Prokris by the Italian composer Francesco Araja ( 1755 ).

In 1755 his initiative was founded Moscow University where he promotes the study of geography and the training of geographers.

A new west façade facing onto St Margaret's Street was built in the Palladian style between 1755 and 1770, providing more space for document storage and committee rooms.