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Montrésor, John
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
...and commanded a light infantry regiment at Quebec (1759). From 1760 to 1764 Montrésor conducted an engineering survey of the St. Lawrence River, and in 1764 he constructed a chain of redoubts on the shore of Lake Erie.
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Algarotti, Francesco
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Algarotti, Francesco ( b Venice, 11 Dec. 1712; d Pisa, 3 May 1764). The foremost Italian art critic of his day, also a collector and patron...sopra la pittura (1762), translated into English as An Essay on Painting (1764).
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Sugar Acts
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...however, in the absence of systematic measures to enforce it. In 1764 George Grenville, chancellor of the Exchequer, enacted a new...annually from 1767 to 1775. Other phases of the Sugar Act of 1764 were far more irritating to the colonists than was the lowered...
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Common Sense
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...demonstrate the futility of all such philosophizing. In his Inquiry (1764), Reid writes that "since we cannot get rid of the vulgar...confesses that he found it necessary to do so" (Reid, Inquiry, 1764). Second, philosophy takes its starting point from the self...
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Castillon, Johann (Giovanni Francesco Melchiore Salvemini)
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...rose to professor of philosophy in 1755 and rector in 1758. In 1764 he traveled to Berlin to accept a position in the Mathematics...he was elected to full membership in the Berlin Academy in 1764, upon the personal recommendation of Frederick the Great. In...
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Chardenon, Jean Pierre
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...note on 6 August 1762 and read at several meetings in 1763 and 1764. He criticized two earlier theories: one, credited to Boyle...de 1 ’ Academie de Dijon, le 9 d é cecembre 1764, ” in Mercure de France (July, 1765), pt. 2...
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Müller, Otto Frederik
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...scientists and became a member of the Academia Caesarea Leopoldina (1764), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1769), and the...entirely in the Linnaean spirit, Fauna insectorum Fridrichsdalina (1764). The description of 858 “ insects ” found...
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Potain, Nicolas-Marie
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...1767, and designed the basilican church of St-Louis, St-Germain-en-Laye in 1764, completed 1823–4, as well as the Cathedral at Rennes (1764–1844), both of which were important examples of Neo-Classicism in church...
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Colonial Policy, British
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Pine Acts, the Hat Act of 1732, the Sugar Acts of 1733 and 1764, and the Iron Act of 1750. From 1754 until 1763 the English...of the fortress of Quebec, and the war was all but over. In 1764 the cost of governing the colonies was £ 350,000 a...
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Bach, Johann Christian
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...an equal success, and he was appointed music-master to Queen Charlotte. In 1764, when the boy Mozart visited London, Bach perf. a sonata with him. Also in 1764 he inaugurated a series of concerts with Karl Friedrich Abel , who had been a...
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