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One goal of establishing this grant was to test the French's willingness to defend the Ohio. The grant in turn provoked the immediate dispatch of Céloron's expedition from Montreal (page 65). In 1748, Comte de la Galissoniere, the governor of Canada, ordered Céloron to strengthen the French claim on the Ohio Valley. Céloron carried out this ...
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
The French presence in the Ohio Valley was the result of French colonization of North America in present-day Pennsylvania.After Cartier and Champlain's expeditions, France succeeded in establishing relations with the Native American tribes and colonizing the future cities of Montreal and Quebec.
The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President (Ohio University Press, 2016) Lamis, Alexander, and Brian Usher. Ohio Politics (2007) 544pp. Maizlish, Stephen E. The Triumph of Sectionalism: The Transformation of Ohio Politics, 1844–1856 (1983) Miller, Richard F. States at War, Volume 5: A Reference Guide for Ohio in the Civil War (2015).
The euro rose marginally against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday, but came off session highs, after a widely expected collapse of the French government following a no-confidence vote by opposition ...
The results, Republicans today hold 10 of our state's 15 seats in Congress (67%) and supermajorities in the Ohio House (68%) and Ohio Senate (79%). We all know Ohio is not 67% or more Republican.
The French in the Mississippi Valley (University of Illinois Press, 1965) McDermott, John F., ed. Frenchmen and French ways in the Mississippi Valley (1969) Marshall, Bill,ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 Vol 2005) Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada -A Cultural History (2000). 340 pp.
As noted by The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio State's helmets include stickers that have a buckeye leaf on them. Buckeye leaves are grown on buckeyes trees, which is the official tree of the state of Ohio.