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In 1756, a fort was built on the order of the governor of Brittany to protect the town, which by then had 600 inhabitants.
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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.
When it became apparent in 1756 that the fort was too far to the west of the lake, the French constructed an additional redoubt to the east to enable cannon to cover the lake's narrows.
Lotbinière, who may have won the job of building the fort only because he was related to Governor Vaudreuil, had lost a bid to become Canada's chief engineer to Nicolas Sarrebource de Pontleroy, one of the two surveying engineers, in 1756, all of which may explain the highly negative report.
Hugh Henry ( 1756 – 1838 ) erected a small fort near the mouth of Dumplin Creek in 1782 known as Henry's Station.
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.
Fort Loudoun was an English colonial fort built in 1756 in hopes of obtaining Cherokee assistance in the French and Indian War.
During the French and Indian War, this fort was captured and destroyed by the French in 1756.
Next to the Real fort, the fort of San Fernando de Omoa was constructed from 1756 through 1775.
The French captured and destroyed the fort after a short siege in 1756, and the Mohawk Valley laid open to French advance as a result.
The central town of Bjelovar was first mentioned in 1413, and it only gained importance when a new fort was built in 1756 to defend against the Ottoman invasions.
Kollam fort in 1756 after it had passed from Portuguese rule to the Dutch
Bjelovar is not an ancient town ; it was first mentioned in 1413 and only gained importance when a new fort was built there in 1756, at the command of the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.
They occupied the Gwalior fort twice ; Bhim Singh from 1740 to 1756 and Chhatra Singh from 1780 to 1783.
A British-Portuguese-Indian naval force attacks the fort of Geriah, 1756
The Angre reign over the Western coast ended with the capture of Tulaji in a joint British / Peshwa attack on the fort of Gheriah ( now Vijaydurg ) in February 1756.
Virginia sent Major Andrew Lewis with 60 men to build a fort at Chota, which was completed in August 1756, but never garrisoned.
The British colony of South Carolina built the fort in 1756, naming it for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun.
They also occupied the Gwalior fort twice Maharaja Bhim Singh Rana ( 1740 – 1756 ) and Maharaja Chhatra Singh Rana ( 1780 – 1783 ).
Fort Loudoun, a frontier fort built in 1756, was located approximately one mile to the north, and the Tellico Blockhouse, a federal trading outpost built in 1794, was located just over mile to the northeast.
Fort Pearsall was an early frontier fort constructed in 1756 in Romney, West Virginia ( then known as Pearsall's Flats, Virginia ) to protect local settlers in the South Branch Potomac River valley against Native American raids.
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.
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.
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Antlia was created in 1756 by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who created fourteen constellations for the southern sky to fill some faint regions.
Some have stated that the secret of concrete was lost for 13 centuries until 1756, when the British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate.
But little credence was given to Father Roman's statement until it was verified, in 1756, by the Spanish Boundary-line Commission of Yturriaga and Solano.
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.
San Salvador was destroyed in 1756 and 1854, and suffered heavy damage in the 1919, 1982, and 1986 tremors.
It was named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756.
In 1756, on the recommendation of Samuel Foote, she became a member of the Drury Lane company, where she was overshadowed by Mrs Pritchard and Kitty Clive.
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.
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.
In 1756, the Seven Years War broke out between the great powers of Europe, and India became a theatre of action, where it was called the Third Carnatic War.
Saint Herman of Alaska ( born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska ) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.
Saint Herman was born in the town of Serpukhov in the Moscow Diocese around 1756.
Also important was the 1756 rediscovery of concrete ( based on hydraulic lime mortar ) by the British engineer John Smeaton, which had been lost for 1300 years.
His first temporary command was in March 1756 when he was briefly the master of the Cruizer, a small cutter attached to the Eagle while on patrol.
Samuel Emory Davis was born to them in 1756.
The King's Royal Rifle Corps was raised in the American colonies in 1756 as the 62nd ( Royal American ) Regiment to defend the thirteen colonies against attack by the French and their native American allies.
However parliamentary delays meant it was 4 March 1756 before a special act of parliament created four battalions of 1, 000 men each to include foreigners for service in the Americas.
Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, the university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896 .< ref >
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 ).
On returning from the continent he expressed a strong preference for the military profession, and a cornet's commission was accordingly obtained for him ( March 1756 ) in the 3rd Dragoon Guards.
It was sighted by a commercial Spanish ship named León operating out of Saint-Malo on 28 June or 29 June 1756.
In 1756 he was appointed deputy Attorney General for Sussex County.
The Seven Years ' War, which began in 1756, was the first war waged on a global scale, fought in Europe, India, North America, the Caribbean, the Philippines and coastal Africa.
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