This winter, L.L. Bean wants to help you feel great out there, with gear tips and advice for heading

outdoors and exploring all the possibilities of the season. When the temperatures are

freezing, your extremities are going to feel the cold first, and nobody

likes numb fingers or frosty toes.

One small piece of gear that makes a big difference is glove liners.

Put these on and you won't just get a little extra warmth.

You can also take your hands out of your mittens without exposing them to the elements.

For more tips, easy howtus, and inspiring stories,

visit L.L.Bin.com slash guide. Over the course of 150 years, 13 colonies sprang up near the Atlantic coast,

establishing a formal British presence in America.

In actuality, there were more as colonies were established, abandoned, and merged into the

13 that survived to be chartered as royal colonies that would

persist to the American Revolution.

We think of American Revolution as a war between the 13 colonies and the British Empire.

And yet other countries and peoples in North American territory came into play.

The theater of war extended into the American frontier, and the colonists, the British,

the French, and the Native Americans all had a stake in the game.

Claims and alliances on the frontier caused an ever shifting political landscape as various

parties endeavored to establish dominance.

In the early 1700s, France expanded south between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River from their holdings in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

then known as Acadia.

Following the French and Indian War, the land was ceded to Great Britain in the 1763 Treaty of Paris.

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