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The Six Nations, a confederacy which included originally the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas; the Tuscaroras joining the confederation later. The combined tribes numbered about 15,000, and inhabited central and western New York. Each tribe was governed by its own sachems, but all matters affecting the confederation were settled by a council of sachems. They sometimes fought with and at other times against the French, Dutch, and English settlers; during the war of the Revolution they were the allies of the English.

P. 136. General Braddock, born about 1715, commanded British and colonial troops in French and Indian War; while leading an expedition against Fort Duquesne was surprised and mortally wounded by the Indians near the present site of Pittsburg.

P. 142. Duquesne, a fort built by the French on the Ohio River to command the approaches to the west.

P. 152. The Moravians, a religious community tracing its origin to the followers of John Huss, who were driven out of Moravia and Bohemia early in the eighteenth century; now widely scattered through England, Holland, America, and other countries, but most numerous in Germany.

P. 156. The Royal Society of London, founded in 1645, established by royal charter in 1662; devoted to the interests of science. P. 157. Cave's Gentleman's Magazine, one of the earliest of English magazines, started in London in 1732 and numbering among its contributors Dr. Johnson and other well-known writers of the period.

P. 157. Count de Buffon, born in Burgundy, France, 1707; studied law, astronomy, and mathematics; travelled extensively in France, Italy, and England; devoted himself to science; fresh methods a brilliant imagination, and an effective style secured for him great reputation; his "Natural History of Botany" marked a new epoch in the study of natural science; a voluminous writer and a man of many accomplishments; died 1788.

P. 158. Royal Academy of Sciences, founded by Louis XIV. in 1666; abolished by the Convention in 1793; reorganized as part of the National Institute of France in 1795; reconstructed by Napoleon in 1806, and again by Louis XVIII. in 1816.

P. 164. William Pitt, one of the most distinguished of English statesmen, born 1708; educated at Eton and Oxford; entered Parliament in 1735; became Secretary of State in 1755; reorganized British army and navy and conducted an aggressive campaign against the French on both sides of the ocean; aided Frederick the Great, captured Canada, and drove the French from the seas; opposed oppressive measures against the colonists in America; died 1778; elevated to the peerage with the title of Earl of Chatham; a man of lofty character, intense patriotism, stately bearing, and commanding eloquence.

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