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Another American in Paris
So, vacation time rolls around again and this year my family and I had an opportunity to travel to Paris, France for a few days. Riding into the city from Charles de Gaulle Airport, our taxi driver, by chance, took … Continue reading
Posted in Continental Congress, Continental Leadership, Memory, Personalities, Politics, Revolutionary War
Tagged American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin West, British, Emerging Revolutionary War, France, Franco-American, French, Hotel D'York, John Adams, John Jay, Paris, Richard Oswald, Treaty of Paris
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Review: The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, by William R. Nester. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2014 (paperback).
Both the American Revolutionary War and the French and Indian War (as it was called in North America) have been the subject of many history books. The original American sources have been pretty much culled through, as have many of … Continue reading
