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Born September 16, 1823 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died November 8, 1893 (aged 70) • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1915)
Subjects Of Study French and Indian War • France • Great Britain • North America • Western colonialism

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