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1756 and Washington
The town was finally reconstructed by sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah ( 1756 – 1790 ), the grandson of Moulay Ismail and ally of George Washington with the help of Spaniards from the nearby emporium.
In 1756, on land granted by James Wood, Colonel George Washington designed and began constructing Fort Loudoun, which ultimately covered in present-day downtown Winchester on North Loudoun Street.
It was one of a number of such forts built from the Potomac River south to North Carolina, and was commanded by Captain Samuel Harris in 1756, the year in which George Washington made a tour of Fort Mayo and several other forts on the Virginia frontier.
On April 22, 1756, Washington wrote to Ashby that if he was attacked by Native Americans to wait for the cover of darkness then blow up the fort and retreat to Fort Cumberland, taking what ammunition they could.
* John Trumbull ( 1756 – 1843 ), " Painter of the American Revolution "; aide-de-camp of General George Washington for 19 days in 1775.
# John Spotswood ( 1725-6 May 1756 ), who married in 1745 Mary Dandridge ( a cousin of Martha Washington ), daughter of William Dandridge, Esq., of Elsing Green, King William Co., Va, a Captain in the British Navy.
For most of 1756 and the early part of 1757, he divided his time between Fort Cumberland and Fort Washington, conducting scouting and escort missions.
Pearsall ’ s stockade was provisioned as a fort for the Virginia Regiment, a bona fide military force raised by the colony, by George Washington in 1755 and garrisoned in 1756.
Henry Lee's grandson, Henry Lee III ( 1756 – 1818 ), known as " Light Horse Harry ," was a Princeton graduate who served with great distinction under General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War, and was the only officer below the rank of General to receive the " Gold Medal ," awarded for his leadership at the Battle of Paulus Hook in New Jersey, on 19 August 1779.

1756 and ordered
In February 1756 Amherst was appointed commissar to the Hessian forces that had been assembled to defend Hanover as part of the Army of Observation: as it appeared likely a French invasion attempt against Britain itself was imminent, Amherst was ordered in April to arrange the transportation of thousands of the Germans to southern England to bolster Britain's defences.
On 31 March 1756, the Secretary of War replaced him as commander-in-chief and ordered him to return to England.
As the war with France developed, in February 1756 the General Assembly ordered the raising of 500 Rhode Island men for the expedition to Lake George in New York.
Boishebert ordered the first Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ).
After they destroyed Fort Granville in the summer of 1756, the colonial governor John Penn ordered Lt.
Born in Rouen, he trained under his uncle Jean-François Blondel ( 1683 – 1756 ), architect of Rouen, then began a career as an architectural engraver, but developed into a conservative and thorough architect, whose rationally ordered mind consolidated French classical tradition and practice.

1756 and Colonel
French regular army reinforcements arrived in New France in May 1756, led by Major General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and seconded by the Chevalier de Lévis and Colonel François-Charles de Bourlamaque, all experienced veterans from the War of the Austrian Succession.
The church was completed in 1756, being built by Colonel Hugh Boyd, who bore the total cost.
His other well-known works include: The Family Expositor ( 6 vols., 1739 – 1756 ); Life of Colonel Gardiner ( 1747 ); and a Course of Lectures on Pneumatology, Ethics and Divinity ( 1763 ).
He served as paymaster of the 1st New Jersey Regiment ( the " Jersey Blues ") under Colonel Peter Schuyler ( New Jersey ) from 1756 to 1760.
As Lord Lieutenant of Essex from May 1756, Rochford was closely involved in forming the Essex regiment of militia, becoming its Colonel in November 1759.
When news of the fall of Calcutta broke in Madras on 16 August 1756, the Council immediately sent out an expeditionary force under Colonel Clive and Admiral Watson.
In response, Lieutenant Colonel John Armstrong led Pennsylvania militiamen on the Kittanning Expedition, which destroyed the village on about 8 September 1756.
In February 1756, he supported the capture of Gheriah ( now Vijaydurg ) by Colonel Robert Clive and Admiral Charles Watson, and was active in numerous skirmishes against the French, helping to consolidate the British position in India.
The earldom of Belvedere, created in 1756, was held by the Rochfort family The 1st Earl of Belvedere was Colonel Robert Rochfort ( 1708 – 1774 ) who came from a distinguished English family settled in Ireland.
It was commanded by Colonel Andrew Van Swearingen ( 1741 – 1793 ) and later by his son-in-law, Captain Samuel Brady ( 1756 – 1795 ), the famous leader of Brady's Rangers.
Colonel David Collins ( 3 March 1756 – 24 March 1810 ) was the first Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Van Diemens Land, founded in 1804, which in 1901 became the state of Tasmania in the Commonwealth of Australia.
* Erik Brahe ( 1722 – 1756 ): Marshal and Colonel
* Colonel Samuel Ward, Jr. ( 1756 – 1832 ), Revolutionary soldier, politician
In 1756 Colonel John Ashby was out of the fort at that location and was attacked by Indians and made a remarkable escape to the fort.

1756 and Adam
The landscape gardener William Emes had begun work at Kedleston in 1756, and he continued in Curzon's employ until 1760 ; however, it was Adam who was the guiding influence.
Schnecksville was first settled in 1756 by Adam Schneck, who owned a tract of land in the area.
Among those printed " Toledot Adam ", a Hebrew letter-writer printed in 1736 ; and in 1742 the responsa " Sheb Ya ' aḳob ", the three Babot of the Jerusalem Talmud, and the second part of the " Pene Yehoshua '", the third part appearing in 1756.
Between 1744 and 1751 he had Dahlen Castle built, on the Dahlen estate he had acquired by marriage, and for the decoration of which he commissioned Adam Friedrich Oeser in 1756.

1756 and Stephen
The accession of Russia to the anti-Prussian coalition ( 1756 ) of the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) occurred over Bestuzhev's head, and the cowardice and incapacity of his friend, the Russian commander-in-chief, Stephen Apraksin, after winning the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf ( 30 August 1757 ), became the pretext for overthrowing the chancellor.
It was created in 1756 for Stephen Fox, 1st Baron Ilchester, who had previously represented Shaftesbury in Parliament.
The elder son by the second marriage, Stephen ( 1704 – 1776 ), was created Lord Ilchester and Stavordale in 1747 and Earl of Ilchester in 1756 ; in 1758 he took the additional name of Strangways, and his descendants, the family of Fox-Strangways, still hold the Earldom of Ilchester.

1756 and at
Phillip joined the Royal Navy at about fifteen, and saw action at the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War in the Mediterranean at the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
Darwin settled in 1756 as a physician at Nottingham, but met with little success and so moved the following year to Lichfield to try to establish a practice there.
Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.
Fearing that Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ) threatened the European balance of power, Spain allied themselves to France but suffered a series of military defeats and ended up having to cede Florida to the British at the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), which ended the Seven Years ' War.
Gwanmosan at approximately 1756 m.
They also note that in 1756, in Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Ben Jonson, William Rufus Chetwood concludes on the basis of performance records " at the end of the year of, or the beginning of the next, ' tis supposed that took his farewell of the stage, both as author and actor .".
Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Major General Henry Lee III ( Light Horse Harry ) ( 1756 – 1818 ), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter ( 1773 – 1829 ).
Joseph was educated at Harrow School from the age of 9, and at Eton College from 1756 ; his fellow students included Constantine John Phipps.
* Joseph Martin Kraus ( 1756 – 1792 ) was Kapellmeister ( Ordinarie Capellmästere ) in Stockholm at the court of king Gustav III of Sweden.
The first known method of artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1756.
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 his residence in Berlin Bach composed a fine setting of the Magnificat ( 1749 ), in which he shows more traces than usual of his father's influence ; an Easter cantata ( 1756 ); several symphonies and concerted works ; at least three volumes of songs ; and a few secular cantatas and other occasional pieces.
In 1756 he made the Chinese recognize Akskal of Badakhshan at Alti in East Turkistan and levied taxes from Badakhshan families in city.
It is thought that mayonnaise was brought back to France from Mahon, Minorca, after Louis-François-Armand du Plessis de Richelieu's victory over the British at the city's port in 1756.
The most likely origin of mayonnaise is the town of Mahon in Menorca ( Spain ), after Armand de Vignerot du Plessis's victory over the British at the city's port in 1756.
Leopold Mozart ’ s Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule ( 1756 ), for example, provides an indication of the state of vibrato in string playing at the end of the baroque period.
He joined the Benedictine Order in 1756 at the Abbey of St Maria del Monte of Cesena, where he received the monastic name Gregory.
Adaptations, titled The Sheep-Shearing and Florizal and Perdita, were acted at Covent Garden in 1754 and at Drury Lane in 1756.
Examples of his history pictures are The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan, executed in 1736 – 1737 for St Bartholomew's Hospital ; Moses brought before Pharaoh's Daughter, painted for the Foundling Hospital ( 1747, formerly at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now in the Foundling Museum ); Paul before Felix ( 1748 ) at Lincoln's Inn ; and his altarpiece for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol ( 1756 ).

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