When the walls were first erected in 1756, they were made of squared wooden timbers, with earth filling the gap.

He was made colonel of the 15th Regiment of Foot on 12 June 1756.

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.

After his opera Antigono was performed in Rome in February, 1756, Gluck was made a Knight of the Golden Spur by Pope Benedict XIV.

In 1756 ( when Henry Pelham had died without male issue and it was apparent that the Duke was to have no children of his own ) the Duke was also made Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the County of Stafford, with remainder to his nephew Henry Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln.

In 1756 he was asked by Newcastle to become Prime Minister as the alternative to Pitt, but Granville, who perfectly understood why the offer was made, declined and supported Pitt.

Here he made the acquaintance of Bonnell Thornton, the parodist, and together they founded The Connoisseur ( 1754 – 1756 ), a periodical which, although it reached its 140th number, " wanted weight ," as Johnson said.

In 1756, a dictionary indicates it was made of a mixture of bread crumbs and little pieces of meat given to pets.

In 1748 he was made a Baron of the Kingdom of Prussia, an honour which he received Royal license to use in Great Britain, and in 1756 the barony of Hyde held by his wife's ancestors was revived when he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Hyde, of Hindon in the County of Wiltshire.

In 1754 he was made Comptroller of the Household, a post he held until 1756, and appointed a Privy Counsellor.

From 1756 to the fall of Louisbourg in 1758, the French made regular payments to Chief Jean-Baptiste Cope and other natives for British scalps.

The historical record of the existence of Artemia dates back to 982 from Urmia Lake, Iran, although the first unambiguous record are the report and drawings made by Schlösser in 1756 of animals from Lymington, England.

In 1781 he was made Baron Conyngham, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, with remainder to his nephew Francis Burton, and Earl Conyngham, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, which like the creations of 1753 and 1756 was created with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body.

In 1756 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Loftus, of Ely in the County of Wicklow.

George Dundas ( 1756 – 1814 ) ( not to be confused with the much more famous naval officer George Heneage Dundas ) was made post-captain in 1795 and saw plenty of action as commander of HMS Juno, a Fifth Rate 32-gun frigate, between 1798 and 1802.

In December 1755 he was made comptroller of the navy and in January 1756 and was sent to Gibraltar as Second in Command of the Mediterranean Fleet.

He entered the British Army in 1756 as a lieutenant colonel in the 60th Regiment of Foot ( The Royal American Regiment ), a unit made up largely of members of Pennsylvania's German immigrant community.

Her daughter, who had studied under Garrick, and whose beauty created a sensation when she made her debut ( as Miss Pritchard ) in October 1756, did not live up to the expectations then raised.

Captured and reimprisoned in the Bastille, he made a second brief escape in 1756.

In 1756 Mirabeau made his first appearance as a political economist by the publication of his Ami des hommes ou Traité de la population.

The 1592 cc and 1756 cc ( sourced from the new Fiat 132, introduced in 1972 ) both made use of a single carburetor again ( the Weber 34 DMS ).

In 1756 he was made a lieutenant-general and received the Order of the Black Eagle and the Order Pour le Mérite.

" She was still in difficulties, as her scholars only paid a groat a week, She was introduced to the Duchess of Portland, daughter and was made governess to the duchess's children in the autumn of 1738, and remained in the same service until her death, 3rd of June 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.

File: Chinese export porcelain with Dutch ship Vryburg 1756 Qianlong period Canton. jpg | The ship Vryburg on a platter, commissioned 1756

The trade peaked in the late 17th century and was slowly replaced by Chinese kilns in the early 18th century ; it ended in 1756, as social conditions in China settled with the full establishment of the Qing Dynasty.

In the summer of 1756 Amursana started a Dzungar revolt against the Chinese with the help of Chingünjav.

:: Amyrsana -- a legendary Oirat chieftain who fled Chinese territory for Russian after the 1756 Ching destruction of Jungaria.

Chinese porcelain plate for a Dutch sea-captain of the ship Vryburg, Guangzhou | Canton, 1756

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.

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 ).

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.