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| 1778 |
| | | The British rapidly abandon Philadelphia on news of the expected arrival of a French fleet | |
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| 1778 |
| | | The British adopt a new policy in the south, landing in Georgia and capturing much of South Carolina | |
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| 1778 |
| | | Francis Hopkinson's popular ballad The Battle of the Kegs describes an ingenious American threat to the British navy | |
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| 1778 |
| | | 15-year-old Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun earns enough from painting portraits to support the rest of her family | |
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| 1779 |
| | | British explorer Captain James Cook is killed in a skirmish with natives in Hawaii over a stolen boat | |
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| 1779 |
| | | Joseph Banks tells a committee of the House of Commons that the east coast of Australia is suitable for the transportation of convicted felons | |
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| 1779 |
| | | The world's first iron bridge is assembled in a few months across the Severn at Coalbrookdale | |
|  | W. Williams, The Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale
Ironbridge Gorge Museum
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| 1779 |
| | | Samuel Crompton perfects the mule, a machine for spinning that combines the merits of Hargreave's jenny and Arkwright's water frame | |
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| 1779 |
| | | The 10-year-old Napoleon is admitted as a student in a military college at Brienne, near Troyes | |
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| 1779 |
| | | U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, fights H.M.S. Serapis near England's Flamborough Head | |
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