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A University of Cambridge historian has decoded more than 100 previously unopened letters sent during the Seven Years War.
For the first time in 265 years, a historian has opened letters written to French soldiers during the Seven Years' War.
Love letters, both familial and romantic, were opened for the first time in 265 years at the request of a Cambridge University professor. They were written during the Seven Years' War.
The French national flag drapped between two tractors as farmers block the A7 motorway near Albon, southeastern France on January 23, 2024. The French national flag drapped between two tractors as ...
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More than 100 letters that never reached the crew of a French warship have been read for the first time since they were sent 265 years ago.
On the day Paris was liberated from the Nazis in 1944, a young American soldier nabbed a souvenir of epic proportions: He took home the French flag that hung from the Arc de Triomphe, a symbol of ...
Letters confiscated by Britain's Royal Navy before they reached French sailors during the Seven Years' War have been opened for the first time.
Description U.S. Military Academy history professor Robert McDonald discussed the American colonists' beliefs and role in the French and Indian War also known as the Seven Years War.
Letters confiscated by Britain's Royal Navy before they reached French sailors during the Seven Years' War have been opened for the first time. Written in 1757-8, they were sent by loved ones for ...