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so what you have is the for mag of the stronger and carolinas and georgia comes closer together and in the new england colonies and all of the new england colonies provide troops and again, what is significant is you get to the mid-atlantic pennsylvania and new york. they didn t provide troops but they provide supplies and so there s the creation after regional identity. i think more strongly in this war than any of the other previous ones. yes, sir? so when the when they return to the french, what did they hear? mainly the french come back. british leave and follow you know, and is it more of a slight skirmish to regrab the fort? no skirmish. the british come in and they think it is theirs. they have been pounding walls down, right? and it isn t the greatest and so they are like, okay, now we captured the fort and so they start and they are, lobbing, you know, shells into the city. they start rebuilding everything. you can see it in this image. this is an image from th
away. so with that, i will go ahead and open up for questions. and i actually have a take away for you guys here. this is a chronology here. so any yes, sir? . [ inaudible ] the question is, the louisburg for the, is there another time it was taken and the answer is yes. so in the next war we come back and the british have to take it again. and you know, the fact that they took it in 1745 helps them a lot. when they take it again in 1758. so there s a definite knowledge and that kind of ties into that theme about how the military experience has gains. it is done once and surely we can do it again, british kind of thing. and we will look at that next week. and actually you re reading about it in anderson s book. yes, sir? . [ inaudible ] the question is, hey, seems like the royal navy is kind of helpful, all right? wouldn t the colonists want to start building up their own navy? and the short answer is yes. in fact, the very first navy we have the continental navy, rig
and i m stephanie ruhle. let s start today with the latest on the plane crash in ukraine. the government there is trading accusations with russia over who shut down the malaysian airlines jet with a total of 298 people aboard. at this hour, the un security council is meeting to meet to talk about the tragedy as the investigation gets underway and president obama will officially speak about it at 11:30 a.m. we will have it live here on bloomberg. it to ryanlet s take chilcote, on the phone with us from kiev. latest? he the latest is that at the time of the crash after the time of the crash, they have begun the rather grim task of recovering the body. the bodies. 298 people were on that flight, so they have a lot of work ahead of them. the crash site spreads over about 10 square miles. the plane is very high up. that is where you get such a spread of debris. the bodies will be transferred from there to a city, which is under the federal government s control. you see h
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