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David Lee Russell

David Lee Russell

David Lee Russell (davidleerussell.com) was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. After receiving his BS in aerospace engineering from North Carolina State University, he attended the Naval Aviation Officer’s Candidate School in Pensacola. Commissioned as an Ensign-Special Duty Intelligence, he served as a Naval Air Intelligence Officer in the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. After leaving active duty service, David began a long career in information technology. He is the author of The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies (McFarlard, 2009), Victory on Sullivan’s Island: The British Cape Fear/Charles Town Expedition of 1776 (Infinity Publishing, 2002), Oglethorpe and Colonial Georgia: A History, 1733–1783 (McFarland, 2006), and The Duke of Southbourne (CreateSpace, 2011). David resides in Milton, Georgia.

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Food & Lifestyle February 6, 2013 August 28, 2016

Life in the Southern Colonies (part 3 of 3)

Transportation in the eighteenth century was a major factor in the growth of economic activity in the colonial period. The most common transportation of…

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People January 30, 2013 August 28, 2016

Life in the Southern Colonies (part 2 of 3)

Read Part 1 The economic life of the Southern colonists was also most positive as the colonial period continued. Up until the end of…

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Food & Lifestyle January 23, 2013 August 28, 2016

Life in the Southern Colonies (Part 1 of 3)

As the mid-eighteenth century arrived, life for the Southern colonists was the best that the British colonial experience could ever have yielded. In almost…

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