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British military engineer John Montrésor somehow found himself in the thick of things whenever history was made in 18th-century America. On February 20, 1760, near the height of the French and Indian War, a band of British Rangers staggered out of the Maine wilderness and into the settlement of Topsham. The men had made a …
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