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  2. Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    The 13 colonies had a degree of self-governance and active local elections, [a] and they resisted London's demands for more control over them. The French and Indian War (1754–1763) against France and its Indian allies led to growing tensions between Britain and the 13 colonies. During the 1750s, the colonies began collaborating with one ...

  3. File:Map of territorial growth 1775.svg - Wikipedia

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    05:13, 3 March 2023: 506 × 662 (507 KB) Johnn Francis: Reverted to version as of 21:34, 7 January 2009 (UTC) This map describes the situation in the year 1775. Florida was acquired by Britain in 1763 from Spain (who would re-acquire it in 1783). Therefore Florida (both west and east) was British at the time this map is set. 16:41, 19 December 2022

  4. GeoWizard - Wikipedia

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    Tom Davies (born 22 September 1990 [2] [3] [4]), known online as GeoWizard, is a British YouTuber and adventurer known for his skill in playing the internet geography game GeoGuessr and his "straight line mission" adventures, in which he attempts to cross regions on foot in as close to a straight line as possible.

  5. GeoGuessr - Wikipedia

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    The "classic" GeoGuessr game mode consists of five rounds, each displaying a different street view location for the player to guess on a map. The player then receives a score of up to 5,000 points depending on how accurate their guess was, up to 25,000 points for a perfect game.

  6. State cessions - Wikipedia

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    The cession of these lands, which for the most part lay between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, was key to establishing a harmonious union among the former British colonies. The areas ceded comprise 236,825,600 acres (370,040.0 sq mi; 958,399 km 2 ), or 10.4 percent of current United States territory , and make up all or ...

  7. Lewis Evans (surveyor) - Wikipedia

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    Evans's General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, published in 1755, was made in collaboration with Thomas Pownall, to whom Evans dedicated it. Lewis Evans (c. 1700 – 12 June 1756) [1] was a Welsh surveyor and geographer. He had a brother John. In the mid-1730s he emigrated to British America, where he was based in Philadelphia ...

  8. Eastern Continental Divide - Wikipedia

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    This point divides the eastern United States into three watersheds: those of the Genesee River flowing into Lake Ontario and then the St. Lawrence River to the north; Pine Creek into the Susquehanna River as part of the Atlantic seaboard watershed to the east; and the Allegheny River into the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

  9. File:Map Thirteen Colonies 1775-es.svg - Wikipedia

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    This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Map_Thirteen_Colonies_1775-fr.svg licensed with PD-self . 2011-07-29T14:47:57Z Litlok 914x628 (281645 Bytes) Il n'y avait pas d'erreur: la Louisiane, suite à la Guerre de Sept Ans, étant espagnole depuis 1762.