A history of the United States for Catholic schools . the Rio Grande. The east and west boundaries were theAlleghany and the Rocky Mountains. France based her claimupon: (a) discoveries and explorations made under the patronage andat the expense of the kings, the nobility, and the Churchof France;(&) actual occupation, though only by widely scattered settle-ments ;(c) the express consent of the Indians, whom the French didnot dispossess of their lands; and upon the conversionof many Indian tribes. 132 INTER-COLONIAL WARS 133 Thus we find that the French were by no means idle whilethe English,
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . the Rio Grande. The east and west boundaries were theAlleghany and the Rocky Mountains. France based her claimupon: (a) discoveries and explorations made under the patronage andat the expense of the kings, the nobility, and the Churchof France;(&) actual occupation, though only by widely scattered settle-ments ;(c) the express consent of the Indians, whom the French didnot dispossess of their lands; and upon the conversionof many Indian tribes. 132 INTER-COLONIAL WARS 133 Thus we find that the French were by no means idle whilethe English, Dutch, and Swedes were planting the famousthirteen original colonies along the Atlantic coast. In fact,they were actively engaged in building up a French empireon the American continent. We have also seen that they tookactual possession of New France by numerous, though widelyscattered settlements, comprising many fortresses and morethan sixty military, trading, and missionary posts—all in a SgliW^ ^^^ h- ? ^,t,igj?^s^^t,^!£-- ?. region wholly uninhabited by the English. These posts were located at points of military importance: (a) Mackinac and Sault Ste. Marie were established on the older routes of the northern waters;(&) Detroit controlled the more direct routes of the Mississippi; (c) Forts Miami and St. Joseph were located at important routes of travel; (d) Cahokia, Kaskaskia, and Chartres in Illinois were trading centers; (e) Vincennes was a stronghold on the Wabash River; (/) Mobile, New Orleans, and Fort Rosalia upheld the Frenchpower on the The Two Nations as Rivals. The French and the Eng-lish in North America differed in race and religion and were 1;j4 a history Ol- THE UNITED STATES by 110 means on friendly terms, owing to conflicting interestswhich may be summed up as follows: (a) the two nations were rivals in the flourishing fishing indus-try of the northern Atlantic waters;(6) they were rivals in the rich fur trade of Acadia and north-ern
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