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On this day in 1756, Britain officially declares war on France. Both powers have already been fighting for at least two years in the wilderness of North America.

The Kentucky Rifle – How America’s Famed Frontier Long Gun Changed Warfare https://t.co/2HADLsDnMS

On this day in 1242, the armies of Novgorod defeat the Teutonic Knights on a frozen lake in what is now Estonia. The Battle of the Ice, as it becomes known, will be later immortalized in the 1938 Sergei Eisenstein epic 'Alexander Nevsky.'

On this day in 1519, Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico with 500 troops to crush the Aztec empire. After coming ashore, he supposedly orders his ships scuttled. Cortés believes that by eliminating the expedition's only means of escape, his men will fight harder.

On this day in 1763, the Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years War. A defeated France cedes the vast territory of Canada to Britain in exchange for the Caribbean colonies of St Lucia, Guadeloupe & Martinique. Voltaire writes that all King Louis XV has lost is "a few acres of snow"

Charm Offensive — Switzerland’s Remarkably Polite ‘Civil War’ of 1847 https://t.co/nqsDsWxwbO

Strange but true: the 19th Century Italian opera star Giuseppina Grassini bedded BOTH Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington -- just not at the same time.

RIGHT NOW in 1863, President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation takes effect. "All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a state in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."

The Empire’s Most Wanted – 10 Mortal Enemies of Ancient Rome https://t.co/1kQv4LXczD