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| Europe: The French and Bavarian troops are pushed back as the War of Austrian Succession continues. Dutch Republic Troops have joinde the English, Austrian, Hessian, Saxon and Hanoverian forces. Theatre by Voltaire; fiction by Henry Fielding. | |||||||||||
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May 1743
May 10 Pierre Francois de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil replaces Bienville as governor. He is called the Grand Marquis and uses his office to hold court, patterned on a small scale after Versailles. He holds grand balls and soirees. When he runs out of money he simply creates more. |
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December 1743
December 2, 1743; M. LeBreton sells his plantation of 7 arpents on the river to the Jesuits Fathers completing the extent of the Jesuit plantation (Common St. to Felicity) that will be confiscated in 1763. |
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Juan Manuel de Salcedo |
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