... Indian tribes had been devastated. The inland Indians such as the Cherokess, Creeks, and Iroquois managed to fend off colonization until the end of the 18th century. L. Late-Coming Georgia:The Buffer Colony 1. Georgia was formally founded in 1733. It was the last of the 13 colonies. The colony was designed to protect the lucrative Carolinas from the resentful Spaniards in Florida and the French ... in facilitating this relationship. 3. However, as more settlers arrived, such peaceful relationships were strained. 1637- Settlers and a Pequot tribe battle. The Pequot Indians were slaughtered...

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... the 1740s, Franklin worked on several projects, including the fire brigade, the police force, the University of Pennsylvania, the street sweeping service and some other smaller public works projects. He retired from the printing business in 1748 and began to conduct scientific experiments in lightning. In 1753, he was awarded honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale, and he became Postmaster General of America. The following year, when war broke out between England and France (the French and Indian War ... facing a war with France (war does erupt in 1754, and it is known by two names: the...

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... Indian tribes, the name of the Nez Perc, tribe of Washington state, stem from their practice of piercing the septum, Nez Perc, is French for Nose Pierced, and was given to the tribe by the French fur traders. Australian aboriginals pierced the septum and passed a long stick or bone through the piercing to flatten the nose, they believed a flat nose to be the most desireable. Among the Bundi tribe of the ... the Trojan War, and left his wife Clytemnestra, in the care of the singer Demodecus, seeing that he had been infibulated. The prevalence of the practice is attested to by the number o...

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