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Colonial American History Stories – 1763 – 1769Colonial American History Stories – 1763 – 1769 includes the years immediately following the French and Indian War and concludes with pre-Revolutionary America.Colonial American History Stories - 1763 - 1769 contains almost 300 history stories presented in a timeline that begins in 1755 with the hanging of the Liberty Bell and ends with the Treaty of Paris that ended the French and Indian War....
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History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. The volumes in this collection explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation. This collection features six books in the Drama of American History...
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A gripping account of how a vigilante mob of Pennsylvania frontiersmen butchered a Native American tribe-and got away with it.
On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty Susquehannock women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the tragic culmination of a gruesomely violent conflict between...
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Relive the Clashes that Shaped Colonial America
Today Americans remember 1776 as the beginning of an era. A nation was born, commencing a story that continues to this day and that we ourselves are a part of. But the War of Independence also marked the end of another era-one in which many nations, Native American and European, had struggled for control of a vast and formidable wilderness. That saga, though separated from us now by a gulf of time that...
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Felicitas de Saint-Maxent, condesa de Gálvez y virreina de la Nueva España, fue un personaje fascinante, que vivió a caballo entre el Antiguo y el Nuevo Régimen y ha sido, hasta ahora, increíble e injustamente olvidada. Hija de criollos de Nueva Orleans, y por tanto de origen y educación franceses, fue una mujer bella, inteligente y promotora de la cultura y las bellas artes a lo largo de toda su vida. Casó con el ilustre gobernador Bernardo...