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This was the beginning of the French and Indian War (also known, much less poetically, as the Seven Years’ War), which I thought as a boy was the most interesting war in all of history.
Although the first U.S. president often praised asylum in speeches and toasts, historians say it is unwise to apply his words to the modern debate about immigration.
Read on for more George Washington facts. Our first president's hair was all real (no wig for him!) but his teeth definitely were not ... and this helped spark the Seven Years War in North America.
When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...
George Washington is a mainstay of history books for fighting everything from the British Empire to a cherry tree, but his private battles may have been the fiercest. Tuberculosis. Malaria ...
And how George Washington started the first world war ... Fighting did not start in Europe until 1756, which is why the conflict is known as the Seven Years’ War in that part of the world.