One indication of Guadeloupe's prosperity at this time is that in the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), France, defeated in war, again, agreed to abandon its territorial claims in Canada if the British returned Guadeloupe, which was captured in 1759.

In 1758, he took part in the major amphibious assault that captured the Fortress of Louisbourg from the French, after which he participated in the siege of Quebec City and then the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

British victories continued in all theaters in the Annus Mirabilis of 1759, when they finally captured Ticonderoga, James Wolfe defeated Montcalm at Quebec ( in a battle that claimed the lives of both commanders ), and victory at Fort Niagara successfully cut off the French frontier forts further to the west and south.

The fort was captured the following year by the British under General Jeffrey Amherst in the 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga.

Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under Sir William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.

* Bellona, a French ship captured in 1759 by Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

The name Ocean entered the list from which names are selected for British ships in 1759, when the Royal Navy captured the French ship named Océan.

In 1759, shortly after capturing Ticonderoga without a fight, General Amherst learned of the death of General John Prideaux whose expedition had captured Fort Niagara.

In 1759, when captain of the Vestal ( 32 ), he captured the French Bellone ( 32 ) after a sharp action.

By 1759 eastern Prussia was in the hands of the Russians, and Berlin had been captured.

In 1775, Fort Ticonderoga's location did not appear to be as strategically important as it had been in the French and Indian War, when the French famously defended it against a much larger British force in the 1758 Battle of Carillon, and when the British captured it in 1759.

During the night of 4 April 1759, a force of Acadians and French in canoes captured the transport.

In December 1757, while cutting firewood near Fort Anne, John Weatherspoon was captured by Indians — presumably Mi ' kmaq — and was carried away to the mouth of the Miramichi River, from where he was sold or traded to the French, taken to Quebec and was held until late in 1759 and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, when General Wolfe's forces prevailed.

* was a 32-gun fifth rate captured from the French Navy in 1759 and wrecked in 1779.

* was a 38-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1759 by HMS Southampton and HMS Melampe.

She was captured at the Battle of Lagos in 1759, and foundered in a hurricane in 1782.

The British Admiral Sir Edward Hawke with 24 ships of the line caught up with a French fleet with 21 ships of the line under Marshal de Conflans and, after hard fighting, sank, captured, or forced aground 6 of them and dispersed the rest, giving the Royal Navy one of its greatest victories, as part of the Annus Mirabilis of 1759.

She was captured in 1759 by HMS Vestal and foundered in 1776.

* was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1759, captured by the French in 1778, recaptured in 1781 and renamed HMS Recovery.

In 1759, the Távora affair emerged after an assassination attempt on her husband failed and the powerful Távora family were, in the eyes of Pombal, completely responsible for the attack.

* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1759 – Seven Years ' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.

In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.

Candide, ou l ' Optimisme (; French: ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

British forces seized remaining French control over Acadia in the coming months, with Île-Saint-Jean falling in 1759 to British forces on their way to Quebec City for the Siege of Quebec and ensuing Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

* 1712 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander ( d. 1759 )

The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.

* 1759 – French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.

* 1759 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor ( b. 1700 )

* 1700 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor ( d. 1759 )

* 1759 – Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader ( d. 1794 )

* 1759 – Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician ( d. 1803 )

The British HMS Sandwich ( 1759 ) | HMS Sandwich fires to the French flagship French ship Bucentaure ( 1803 ) | Bucentaure ( completely dismasted ) into battle off Battle of Trafalgar | Trafalgar.

* 1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years ' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.

The British HMS Sandwich ( 1759 ) | HMS Sandwich fires to the French flagship French ship Bucentaure ( 1803 ) | Bucentaure ( completely dismasted ) into battle off Battle of Trafalgar | Trafalgar.

In 1759 he lost four ships loaded with sugar and coffee, which were taken by a Bristol privateer, on their way back.

In 1759, after an unhappy marriage to her music teacher James Abington, a royal trumpeter, she is mentioned in the bills as " Mrs Abington ".

In 1783, after the war, he married Jane Cook ( also born in Christian County, in 1759 to William Cook and his wife Sarah Simpson ).

Johnson's advance stopped at Fort William Henry, and the French withdrew to Ticonderoga point, where they began the construction of Fort Carillon ( later renamed Fort Ticonderoga after British capture in 1759 ).

In 1759, decades after the deaths of both Newton and Hooke, Alexis Clairaut, mathematical astronomer eminent in his own right in the field of gravitational studies, made his assessment after reviewing what Hooke had published on gravitation.

This in turn makes it understandable how in 1759, decades after the deaths of both Newton and Hooke, Alexis Clairaut, mathematical astronomer eminent in his own right in the field of gravitational studies, made his assessment after reviewing what Hooke had published on gravitation.

Britain eventually gained control of Quebec City and Montreal after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and Battle of Fort Niagara in 1759, and the Battle of the Thousand Islands and Battle of Sainte-Foy in 1760.

These dialects originated from migrations from the St. Lawrence valley into the area, from 1697 onwards well into the early 19th century, with contributions of refugees from Acadia in the 18th century, both before and after the British conquest of 1759.

The so-called " new " dialects arose from colonization after 1759 which went on well into the late 19th century.

In 1759, after the capture of Fort Duquesne in Allegheny County, a road was built between the fort ( which was renamed to Fort Pitt ) to the newly built Fort Bedford in Raystown.

They were toll roads in the 18th century, before and after the dismantling of the permanent Tyburn gallows " tree " at their junction in 1759.

The French and Indian War, however, prevented settlement until after the 1759 Fall of Quebec.

Montague Township was supposedly named after the George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, as suggested by King George II, who approved the royal patent on March 26, 1759.

" Britain gained control of Fort Niagara in 1759, during the French & Indian War, after a nineteen-day siege.

Bethania was the first planned Moravian settlement in Wachovia, and members of a Society, under the care of the Bethania congregation were permitted to reside in the village, as well, after July 1759.

Because colonial settlers believed that earthwork mounds were a prehistoric fortification, they called the settlement Redstone Old Fort ; later in the 1760s – 70s, it eventually became known as Redstone Fort or by the mid-1760s, Fort Burd named eponymously after the officer who commanded the British fort constructed in 1759.

The house was built from 1759 to 1771 for Edwin Lascelles, whose family had bought the estate after making its fortune in the West Indies through Customs positions, slave trading and lending money to planters.

The situation got worse in 1759 when Fort Carillon and Fort Niagara were taken, and the key citadel of Quebec fell after a prolonged siege and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham of September 13, 1759.

Meanwhile the British army, left behind in Quebec after the fleet sailed at the end of October 1759, suffered from hunger, scurvy and the travails of living in a city that they had largely destroyed in the siege.

His ancestors were United Empire Loyalists John Diamond ( 1759 – 1845 ) and Christiana Loyst ( 1765 – 1842 ), from Dutchess County, New York who fled to Fredericksburgh, Ontario after the Revolution.

In 1759, after having lived in Geneva less than two years, Voltaire had purchased the estate of Ferney in France, near the Swiss border.