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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[War of Jenkins' Ear]]: [[Battle of Bloody Marsh]] &ndash; British troops repel those of [[Spain]] (under Montiano), in the [[Province of Georgia]].
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath|William Pulteney]] is created 1st [[Earl of Bath]] in Great Britain.
* [[August 17]]
**Accompanied by 10 French Army observers, Choctaw Indians from the French Louisiana territory cross the Tombigbee River and raid Chickasaw Indian towns in Georgia.<ref>Edward J. Cashin, ''Guardians of the Valley: Chickasaws in Colonial South Carolina and Georgia'' (University of South Carolina Press, 2009) p57</ref> Over three days, the attackers lose 50 men, the Chickasaw defenders about 25.  For permitting the attack, the French Louisiana governor, the Sieur de Bienville, is summoned back to Paris. 
**Irish author and poet Dean [[Jonathan Swift]] is declared by a court to be "of unsound mind and memory" and confined to home treatment for the remaining three years of his life.<ref>"Swift, Jonathan", by Donald C. Mell, in ''Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature'', ed. by Robert Hogan (Macmillan, 2016) p652</ref>
* [[August 19]]
**A British fleet led by Commodore [[William Martin (Royal Navy officer)|William Martin]] enters the harbor of Naples with three warships, two frigates, and four bomb vessels, and sends a message giving the [[Charles III of Spain|King Charles VII of Naples]] (the future King Charles III of Spain) 30 minutes to agree to withdraw Neapolitan troops from the Spanish Army.  Don Carlos agrees and ends the threat of a Spanish foothold in Italy.<ref>I. S. Leadam, ''The Political History of England: The history of England from the accession of Anne to the death of George II, 1702-1760'' (Longmans, Green and Co., 1909) p372</ref>
**[[Voltaire]]'s controversial play ''Fanatacism, or Mahomet the Prophet'' is first performed, in Paris, to a theatre audience filled with French nobility.<ref>S. G. Tallentyre, ''The Life of Voltaire'', Volume 1 (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910) p141.</ref>  
* [[August 20]] &ndash; The [[Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743)|Swedish-Russian War]] effectively ends as 17,000 Swedish troops surrender in [[Finland]] at Helsingfors ([[Helsinki]]).<ref>"Russo-Swedish War of 1741–43", in ''Dictionary of Wars'', by George Childs Kohn (Routledge, 2013) p420</ref>
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[George Anson, 1st Baron Anson|George Anson]], captain of [[HMS Centurion (1732)|HMS ''Centurion'']], arrives with his seriously ill crew at the island of [[Tinian]] (now U.S. territory as one of the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] and saves his mission.  <ref>"Anson, George", by Keith A. Parker, in ''Historical Dictionary of the British Empire'', ed. by James S. Olson and Robert Shadle (Greenwood Publishing, 1996) p68</ref>
* [[September 5]] &ndash; The 46 survivors of Russia's [[Great Northern Expedition]] return to Petropavlovsk after having been shipwrecked on an island in the [[Bering Strait]] ten months earlier.  They had completed the building of a new ship from the wreckage of the ''St Pyotr'' on August 21. <ref>Edward Heawood, "A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (Cambridge University Press, 
CUP Archive, 1912) p267</ref>
* [[September 16]] &ndash; Construction starts on the [[Foundling Hospital]] in [[London]]. <ref>''An Account of the Foundling Hospital in London, for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children'' (Foundling Hospital, 1826) p20</ref>