Battle of Flamborough Head<span> began. </span>Serapis<span> engaged </span>Bonhomme Richard<span>, and soon afterwards, </span>Alliance<span> fired, from a considerable distance, at </span>Countess<span>. Quickly recognizing that he could not win a battle of big guns, and with the wind dying, Jones made every effort to lock </span>Richard<span> and </span>Serapis<span> together (his famous, albeit possibly </span>apocryphal<span>, quotation "I have not yet begun to fight!" was uttered in reply to a demand to surrender in this phase of the battle)</span>
On October 7, 1763 King George issued a Proclamation nation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian mountains. In so doing, he hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded seven years war.
Charlemagne made Christianity the religion of the empire.
By the late twelfth century, trade replaced agriculture as the most dynamic forces in the European economy.
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