Editing 1755 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[French and Indian War]] &ndash; [[Braddock Expedition]]: [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat inflicted by [[Kingdom of France|French]] and Indian forces. During the battle, British General [[Edward Braddock]] is mortally wounded. Colonel [[George Washington]] survives.<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9580/ |title = The Battle of the Monongahela |website = [[World Digital Library]] |date = 1755 |access-date = 2013-08-03 }}</ref>
* [[July 17]] &ndash; In a convoy of ships from [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]], returning to India for the [[East India Company]], the lead ship ''[[Doddington (East Indiaman)|Doddington]]'' (on her third voyage) wrecks in [[Algoa Bay]] near modern-day [[Port Elizabeth]] in South Africa, losing 247 of its 270 passengers and crew, together with a chest of gold coins from [[Robert Clive]] worth £33,000. In [[1998]], 1,400 coins from the wreck site are offered for sale, and in [[2002]] a portion is given to the South African government. Around twenty survivors of the wreck are eventually able to make safety after an open boat voyage.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VX0SAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA109|title=A History of Shipwrecks, and Disasters at Sea, from the Most Authentic Sources|publisher=Whittaker, Treacher & Co.|location=London|year=1833|last=Redding|first=Cyrus|authorlink=Cyrus Redding|chapter=Chapter V}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sailing Ship "Dodington"|publisher=Dodington Family|year=2002|url=http://www.dodingtonfamily.org/shipdodingtonnotes.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050114210627/http://www.dodingtonfamily.org/shipdodingtonnotes.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2005-01-14|access-date=2021-05-17}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; The decision to deport the [[Acadians]] is made, during meetings of the Nova Scotia Council meeting in [[Halifax (former city)|Halifax]]. From September 1755-June 1763, the vast majority of Acadians are deported to one of the following British Colonies in America: [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts]], [[Connecticut Colony|Connecticut]], [[Province of New York|New York]], [[Province of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], [[Province of Maryland|Maryland]], [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]], [[Province of North Carolina|North Carolina]], [[Province of South Carolina|South Carolina]] and [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]]. Contrary to popular belief, no Acadians are sent to [[Louisiana (New France)|Louisiana]]. Those sent to Virginia are refused and then sent on to [[Liverpool]], [[Bristol]], [[Southampton]] and [[Penryn, Cornwall|Penryn]] in England. In 1758 the Fortress of Louisbourg falls and all of the civilian population of Isle Royal (Cape Breton Island) and Isle St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) are repatriated to France. Among them were several thousand Acadians, who had escaped the deportation by fleeing into those areas. Very few Acadians successfully escape the deportation and do so only by fleeing into some of the northern sections of present day [[New Brunswick]]. The event inspires Longfellow to write the epic poem ''[[Evangeline]]''.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; The [[Expulsion of the Acadians]] begins, with the [[Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755)|Bay of Fundy Campaign]].
* [[September 2]] &ndash; A powerful hurricane strikes the east coast of the British colony of [[North Carolina]], killing 150 people and sinking five British and colonial merchant ships at [[Portsmouth, North Carolina|Portsmouth Island]].<ref>"North Carolina", in ''Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones'', by David Longshore (Infobase Publishing, 2010) p330</ref>
* [[September 6]] &ndash; The [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] awards its prize for "the best explanation of the true causes of electricity including their theory" to Switzerland's [[Johann Euler]] for his paper ''Disquisitio de causa physica electricitatis''.<ref>"Hallerstein and Gruber's Scientific Heritage", by Stanislav Joze Juznic, in ''The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science'' (Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, 2012) p358</ref> 
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[French and Indian War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lake George]]: French Army troops, led by [[Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau]], and Canadian colonists, led by [[Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre]], drive south into Britain's New York province.<ref>David R. Starbuck, ''The Legacy of Fort William Henry: Resurrecting the Past'' (University Press of New England, 2014)</ref> They are met by British Army troops under [[Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet|General William Johnson]] being supplemented by 200 Mohawk troops led by the Mohawk war chief, [[Hendrick Theyanoguin|Theyanoguin]]. After Theyanouguin and other Mohawks are killed in the battle, the [[Haudenosaunee Clan Mother|clan matrons]] of the Mohawk nation forbid the men from participating in the war against the French until a French defeat seems certain.<ref>Alfred A. Cave, ''The French and Indian War'' (Greenwood, 2004) p115</ref>   
* [[September 16]] &ndash; Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, the new British Minister to Russia, secures an alliance signed by Empress Catherine the Great. The Russian Empire agrees to provide up to 55,000 troops to defend the [[Electorate of Hanover]] against invasion by [[Prussia]]. At the time, King [[George II of Great Britain]] is also the ruler of the German duchy; the Russian troops are provided in return for an annual payment of £600,000.<ref>Ian Grey, ''Catherine the Great'' (New Word City, 2016)</ref>  
* [[September 17]] &ndash; Jean-Marc Vacheron founds his watch-making company [[Vacheron Constantin]]. To this day, Vacheron Constantin is the oldest watchmaker in the world with an uninterrupted watchmaking history since its foundation.<ref>'Treasures of Vacheron Constantin: A Legacy of Watchmaking since 1755' 
by Julien Marchenoir</ref>
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Somerville, Massachusetts#Role in the Revolutionary War|Two slaves, Mark and Phyllis, are publicly executed for the poisoning murder of their master, John Codman]] in front of a large crowd outside the Middlesex County Courthouse in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].<ref>"Periphery as Center: Slavery, Identity, and the Commercial Press in the British Atlantic, 1704-1755", by Robert E. Desrochers, Jr., in ''British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'', ed. by Stephen Foster (Oxford University Press, 2016)</ref>  Phyllis is [[death by burning|burned to death]]. Mark's execution by hanging is made as an example to other [[History of slavery in Massachusetts|African slaves in the Province of Massachusetts Bay]]. His body is transported to Charlestown Common in what is now [[Somerville, Massachusetts|Somerville]] and [[Gibbeting|displayed on a gibbet]] for more than 20 years. In 1798, [[Paul Revere]] mentions in his memoir that his famous ride of April 18, [[1775]], started when he first spotted British Army officers at a site "nearly opposite where Mark was hung in chains", I saw two men on Horse back, under a Tree".<ref>Dee Morris and Dora St. Martin, ''Somerville, Massachusetts: A Brief History'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2008)</ref>