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| Tango01 | 12 Jun 2016 1:08 p.m. PST |
… Officer Made a Fortune from War. "WARS OFTEN PROVIDE enterprising individuals opportunities, and during the course of King George's War, which was an extension of a wider conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession, one British naval officer used his particular situation to secure a tremendous profit. When approached by Governor William Shirley of Massachusetts in February 1745 to help the New England colonies mount an invasion of the French fortress of Louisbourg (located in what is now Nova Scotia, Canada) Commodore Peter Warren was apprehensive…"
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goes beyond the straight line.