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==Page 658==
'''Braddock's Road'''<br>
The Braddock Road was a historical roadway in what was then British America and is now the United States.  It was constructed in 1755 by British troops who were part of an expedition to conquer the Ohio Country from the French at the beginning of the Seven Years' War.  From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braddock%27s_Road WIKI] - Also, see page [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_31:_302-314#Page_309 309].

'''Capt. Mackay'''<br>
James Mackay was a captain in the British Army during the French and Indian War.  He was in command of the Independent Company of South Carolina when he was sent by the Governor of South Carolina to assist Virginia's defense of the Ohio Country from the French in the summer of 1754.  He was co-commander of Fort Necessity along with George Washington during the Battle of the Great Meadows on July 3, 1754.  From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mackay_(soldier) WIKI]

'''the Highland Forty-second'''<br>
See page [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_50:_484-490#Page_489 489].

'''Prospero'''<br>
Prospero is the protagonist in ''The Tempest'', a play by William Shakespeare.  From/See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero WIKI]

==Page 659==
'''Frederick's rank'd Automata'''<br>
See page [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_54:_525-541#Page_535 535].

==Page 660==
'''Youghiogheny'''<br>
The Youghiogheny River, or the Yough for short, is a tributary of the Monongahela River, approximately 122 mi (195 km) long, in the U.S. states of West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.  It drains an area on the west side of the Allegheny Mountains northward into Pennsylvania, providing a small watershed in extreme western Maryland into the tributaries of the Mississippi River.  From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youghiogheny WIKI] - See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monon_YoughioghenyRiver.png MAP]

==Page 661==
'''Fall of Quebec'''<br>
See page [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_40:_399-409#Page_407 407] - Also, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Quebec WIKI]

'''Bouquet's Success at Bushy Run...  relief of Fort Pitt'''<br>
See pages [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_62:_608-617#Page_616 616-617].

'''Young Horst'''<br>
The name is of Old High German origin, meaning "man from the forest", "bosk" or "brushwood".  In modern German, "Horst" is also the equivalent of English ''aerie'', the nest of an eagle.  From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_(given_name) WIKI]

'''Westphalia'''<br>
Westphalia is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Arnsberg, Bielefeld, Bochum, Detmold, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Hagen, Minden and Münster and included in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia...  Westphalia is known for the 1648 Peace of Westphalia which ended the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War Thirty Years' War], as the two treaties were signed in Münster and Osnabrück.  From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalia WIKI]

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'''Laurel Hill'''<br>
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