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t from his brother John, who dies this year ......1746 Over 5,000 immigrants, mostly Germans, arrive in Pennsylvania......1750 Franklin identifies lightning and electricity......June 5, 1752 French build a fort at Presque Isle, now Erie......1753 One at Le Boeuf, on French Creek......1753 Another at Venango......1753 George Washington sent by the governor of Virginia to meet the French commander at Fort Le Boeuf and learn his reasons for invading British dominions......November, 1753 Thirty-three men of the Ohio company begin a fortification at the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela, now Pittsburg, but on the approach of the French capitulate......April 17, 1754 French occupy and finish the fort, calling it Duquesne, in honor of the governor of Canada......1754 Washington sent with about 150 men by Governor Dinwiddie, of Virginia, to the Great Meadows......April, 1754 Congress of commissioners of the colonies at Albany, N. Y.......June 19, 1754