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=== July–September === * [[July 9]] – The British naval fort at [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] is founded on mainland [[Nova Scotia]] as a defense against the New France [[Fortress of Louisbourg]] on [[Cape Breton Island]], less than {{convert|100|mi}} away. * [[August 2]] – Irish-born trader [[George Croghan]], unaware of the recent British grant of land in the Ohio River valley to the Ohio Company, purchases 200,000 acres of much of the same land from the [[Iroquois|Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy]], dealing directly with "the three most important Iroquois chiefs resident in that area, in return for an immense quantity of Indian goods." The deal takes place at the Iroquois capital of [[Onondaga (village)|Onondaga]], near present-day [[Syracuse, New York]].<ref>Nicholas B. Wainwright, ''George Croghan: Wilderness Diplomat'' (University of North Carolina Press, 1959) p28</ref> * [[August 3]] **The [[Battle of Ambur]] is fought in south India as the [[Second Carnatic War]] begins between the French-supported troops of [[Chanda Sahib]] of the [[Mughal Empire]] and the British-supported defenders of the [[Arcot State]], led by its 77-year old Nawab, [[Anwaruddin Khan]]. After marching outside of the walls of Arcot to confront Chanda Sahib and Joseph Dupleix's 4,000 troops, Anwaruddin Khan's numerically superior force is routed and he is killed in the battle.<ref>Spencer C. Tucker, ed., ''A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East'' (ABC-CLIO, 2009) p756</ref> **French explorer [[Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville]], commissioned by New France to explore the Ohio Territory claimed by both France and Britain, buries the first of six engraved lead markers claiming the land for King [[Louis XV of France]].<ref>Terry A. Barnhart, ''American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)</ref> The first plate is buried on the banks of the [[Allegheny River]], near a rock with [[petroglyph]]s, in what is now [[Venango County, Pennsylvania]]. * [[August 7]] – [[Mary Musgrove|Mary Musgrove Bosomworth]], a woman of mixed British and Creek Indian ancestry, presents herself as Coosaponakeesa, Queen of the Creek Indians and marches with 200 Creek Indians into the town of [[Savannah, Georgia]]. During her confrontation with British colonial authorities, she and her husband Thomas Bosomworth demand payment of "nearly twenty-five thousand dollars" in compensation for property taken from the Creek Indians, before the British authorities determine that she doesn't have the authority to speak for the tribe.<ref>Sara Hines Martin, ''Georgia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) p15</ref> * [[August 15]] – Four Russian sailors— Aleksei Inkov, Khrisanf Inkov, Stepan Sharapov and Fedor Verigin— are rescued after having been marooned on the [[Arctic Ocean]] island of [[Edgeøya]] for more than six years. They are the only survivors of a crew of 14 whose [[Koch (boat)|koch]] had been blown off course in May 1743 and then broken up by ice.<ref name=Roberts>David Roberts, ''Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World'' (Simon and Schuster, 2005) p10</ref> The four are returned home on September 28. * [[August 19]] – At a ceremony in [[San Antonio, Texas]] (then a part of the New Spain province of [[Nuevo Santander]]), four [[Apache people|Apache]] chiefs and Spanish colonial officials and missionaries literally "bury the hatchet", placing weapons of war into a pit and covering it as a symbol that the Apaches and the Spaniards will fight no further war against each other.<ref>Joseph Luther, ''Camp Verde: Texas Frontier Defense'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2012)</ref> * [[September 5]] – A delegation of 33 members of the [[Catawba people|Catawba]] Indian nation and 73 from the [[Cherokee people|Cherokee]] nation arrive in [[Charleston, South Carolina]], to discuss a peace treaty with South Carolina's provincial governor, [[James Glen]].<ref>Michelle LeMaster, ''Brothers Born of One Mother: British–Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast'' (University of Virginia Press, 2012)</ref> * [[September 12]] – The first recorded game of [[baseball]] is played, by [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]], at [[Kingston upon Thames]] in England.<ref>''[[Whitehall Evening Post]]'' 1749-09-19. {{cite news|title=Baseball: Prince of Wales played 'first' game in Surrey|date=2013-06-10|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22840004|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref> * [[September 23]] – Grand Chief [[Jean-Baptiste Cope]], of the [[Miꞌkmaq]] Indian nation in Canada, declares war against the British Empire<ref>"The Covenant Chain", by [[Elsie Charles Basque]], in ''Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2014) p37</ref> after the building of the fort at [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] and begins hostilities by taking 20 British hostages at [[Canso, Nova Scotia|Canso]].<ref name=McNab>"'Black with Canoes'. Aboriginal Resistance and the Canoe", by David McNab, et al., in ''Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries'', ed. by George Raudzens (Brill Academic Publishers, 2003) p261</ref> * [[September 28]] – Three Russian survivors of the shipwreck on [[Edgeøya]] return to their homeland after more than six years, as the ship ''Nikolai i Andrei'' brings them to the port of [[Arkhangelsk]].<ref name=Roberts/> A fourth survivor, Fedor Veriginare, died of [[scurvy]] during the six-week voyage home.
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