Violence Breaks Out: A Prelude to the Seven Years' War

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2012 · Education

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Dr. Julia Orman, Professor of History at Mississippi State University, tells the story of The Battle of Jumonville Glen, a prelude to the Seven Years' War. Osman discusses what it meant for officers of the French army to take part in the American struggle for independence and to become members of the Society of the Cincinnati. She also addresses the connection between the American Revolution and the French Revolution of 1789.

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