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Albany Congress

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The Albany Congress

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Albany Congress: Join or Die!

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History Brief: The Albany Plan of Union and Committees of Correspondence

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History Brief: The Albany Plan of Union and Committees of Correspondence (Old Version)

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Benjamin Franklin and the Fight for Independence

The Albany Congress was a meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of seven of the thirteen British colonies in British America: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Northernmost Newfoundland and Nova Scotia were not in attendance. Representatives met daily at the Stadt Huys in Albany, New York, from June 18 to July 11, 1754, to discuss better relations with the American Indian tribes and common defensive measures against the French threat from Canada in the opening stage of the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
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