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The E-Sylum:  Volume 9, Number 45, November 5, 2006, Article 22

CLASH OF EMPIRES EXHIBIT MOVES TO SMITHSONIAN

>From a recent news release: "Clash of Empires: The British, French
and Indian War, 1754-1763 opens at the Smithsonian’s International
Gallery Friday, Dec. 15. The exhibition explores the three-sided
struggle for the possession of North America by the British, French
and American Indians and its worldwide effects. The Senator John
Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center organized this exhibition
in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution and the Canadian
War Museum/Museum of Civilization. Clash of Empires is on view
through March 15, 2007.

Clash of Empires opened at the Heinz History Center in May 2005
before traveling to the Canadian War Museum/Museum of Civilization
in Ottawa, where it closes in mid-November. The exhibit has won a
number of national awards, including an award of merit from the
American Association for State and Local History."

To read the complete news release, see: news release

[This exhibit includes a phenomenal group of early medals, detailed
in a previous E-Sylum item (see below).  This exhibit is a once-in-a-
lifetime opportunity to see such a rare and historically important
group of artifacts.  Oh yeah, there are also things like the original
Fort Necessity surrender document signed by George Washington on July
3,1754.

MEDALS IN THE CLASH OF EMPIRES EXHIBIT
esylum_v08n20a09.html
-Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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