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Away. So with that, i will go ahead and open up for questions. And i actually have a take away for you guys here. This is a chronology here. So any yes, sir . [ inaudible ] the question is, the louisburg for the, is there another time it was taken and the answer is yes. So in the next war we come back and the british have to take it again. And you know, the fact that they took it in 1745 helps them a lot. When they take it again in 1758. So theres a definite knowledge and that kind of ties into that theme about how the military experience has gains. It is done once and surely we can do it again, british kind of thing. And we will look at that next week. And actually youre reading about it in andersons book. Yes, sir . [ inaudible ] the question is, hey, seems like the royal navy is kind of helpful, all right . Wouldnt the colonists want to Start Building up their own navy . And the short answer is yes. In fact, the very first navy we have the Continental Navy, right . So they do recogn
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Panelists explore the role of a. Phillip randolph, the labor and civil rights leader who organized the union, as well as the struggles of female members. They also described the National Parks service this was hosted by the association for the study of africanamerican life and history. Its about two hours. Thanks, everybody. For coming here, we have got a great panel here, a. Phillip randolph and the brotherhood of sleeping car porters. My name is allan spears. Npca has served as the leading voice of the American People on behalf of their National Parks since we were founded in 1919. And its our mission to protect an enhance americas National Parks for current and future generations and we are a very, very proud partner of aslh, the association and its a partnership that i take great pleasure in and im grateful to the association for hosting their 99th annual conference and look forward to working with them on their centennial next year, thats quite a thing to look forward to. We have
So what you have is the for mag of the stronger and carolinas and georgia comes closer together and in the new england colonies and all of the new england colonies provide troops and again, what is significant is you get to the midatlantic pennsylvania and new york. They didnt provide troops but they provide supplies and so theres the creation after regional identity. I think more strongly in this war than any of the other previous ones. Yes, sir . So when the when they return to the french, what did they hear . Mainly the french come back. British leave and follow you know, and is it more of a slight skirmish to regrab the fort . No skirmish. The british come in and they think it is theirs. They have been pounding walls down, right . And it isnt the greatest and so they are like, okay, now we captured the fort and so they start and they are, lobbing, you know, shells into the city. They start rebuilding everything. You can see it in this image. This is an image from the library at uni