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Historical person
Robert Dinwiddie was lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia from 1751 to 1758. He pressed British claims in the Ohio Country, sent George Washington to warn French forces in 1753 and helped initiate the military confrontation that developed into the French and Indian War.
Tim Holden’s Rivers Run Deep places Robert Dinwiddie within a narrative shaped by exploration, travel and cultural encounter, empire, conquest and resistance, and political ambition and government. Tim Holden’s New World Order places Robert Dinwiddie within a narrative shaped by exploration, travel and cultural encounter, military command and battlefield decision-making, and empire, conquest and resistance.
Series
The New World Saga follows the Washington family and a wider cast of soldiers, traders, settlers, Indigenous diplomats, servants and political agents through the imperial wars that reshaped eighteenth-century North America. It begins with Lawrence Washington’s service in the War of Jenkins’ Ear, then turns to the young…
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