Seven Years' War?  !!

There weren't any French in the settled parts of Virginia during that war.
There may have been French forces in Hanover County just before Yorktown,
but that was in 1781, not during the 1750s.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Maass [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 04 January, 2002 3:17 PM
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Subject: Virginia in the Seven Years War


In Henry Johnson's The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Cornwallis,
1781 (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1986) originally published
in the 1880s, he states that the French invaded Virginia during the war and
occupied Hanover.  This was news to me!  I did not read of this in Titus's
The Old Dominion at War, or any other source I checked.  Is Johnson just
plain wrong?  Hard to figure out where he would have come up with such a
notion, and were it true I'd think that there would be some evidence for
it.

John Maass
UNC-Greensboro

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