Vandalia (Colony)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony in North America that never materialized. The colony was to be located south of the Ohio River, primarily in what is now the U.S. states of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. In the 18th century, British land speculators attempted to colonize the Ohio Valley a number of times, most notably in 1748 when the British Crown granted a petition of the Ohio Company for 200,000 acres (800 km²) near the "Forks of the Ohio" (present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). The outbreak of the French and Indian War…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony in North America that never materialized. The colony was to be located south of the Ohio River, primarily in what is now the U.S. states of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. In the 18th century, British land speculators attempted to colonize the Ohio Valley a number of times, most notably in 1748 when the British Crown granted a petition of the Ohio Company for 200,000 acres (800 km²) near the "Forks of the Ohio" (present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). The outbreak of the French and Indian War (1754?63) and Pontiac's Rebellion (1763-66) delayed colonization in the region.