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Born 1693 • Scotland
Died July 27, 1770 (aged 77) • Clifton • Scotland
Title / Office governor (1751-1758), Virginia
Role In French and Indian War
George Washington
George Washington
president of United States
Thomas Walker
American physician
Francis H. Pierpont
American politician
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
president of United States
James Monroe
James Monroe
president of United States
Asher B. Durand: portrait of James Madison
James Madison
president of United States
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Parkman, Francis
Francis Parkman
American historian
John Smith
John Smith
British explorer
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry
American statesman
John Tyler
John Tyler
president of United States
Harry F. Byrd
Harry F. Byrd
American politician
Nat Turner
Nat Turner
American enslaved person and bondsman
Pernell Whitaker
American boxer
Kaine, Tim
Tim Kaine
United States senator
Edmund Randolph
Edmund Jennings Randolph
United States statesman
Death of the marquis de Montcalm
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, marquis de Montcalm
French general
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon
American colonist
Wolfe, James
James Wolfe
British general
Christopher Newport
British sea captain