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Subject: [Q-R] Today in History Aug 31
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:51:59 EDT
Aug 31, 1688 John Bunyan dies today, author, poet, wrote" Pilgrims Progress"
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Aug 31, 1666 Mohawk Chief Agariata attends a peace conference in Quebec,
between Iroquois and French. But Governor Alexandre DE Proville learns Agariata
had killed his son a few months previously, so he has Agariata hung.
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Aug 31, 1814 John Sherbrooke captures Castine, Maine
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Aug 31, 1721 New France harvests 216,000 pounds of tobacco
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Aug 31, 1666 Census shows 3,418 in New France
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Aug 31, 1778 British kill 17 Stockbridge Indians in the Bronx during the
Revolution
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