An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . HRAL ?WOLFS. CHAPTER XXV. THE SEVEN YEARS ^ ITHERTO we have traced the history of each of theEnglish colonies in America separately ; for, althoughoccasionally we have seen them forming politicalcombinations, yet, until the opening of the SevenYears War, no object had been presented to themsufficiently great to cause a combination of their ener-gies for its attainment. Such
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . HRAL ?WOLFS. CHAPTER XXV. THE SEVEN YEARS ^ ITHERTO we have traced the history of each of theEnglish colonies in America separately ; for, althoughoccasionally we have seen them forming politicalcombinations, yet, until the opening of the SevenYears War, no object had been presented to themsufficiently great to cause a combination of their ener-gies for its attainment. Such an object now appeared ; and from1754, the year in which the French War commenced, the general 2 0 301 B02 THE SEVEN TEARS WAK. zation of our colonial history is the natural consequence of the pro-gress of events. The claim of France to the river St. Lawrence and the adjoiningcountry, was founded on the early visits of Cartier. Settlement wasfirst attempted by De la Roche, a Briton, who obtained from Henry patent of similarly extensive powers to those granted in Englandto Gilbert and Raleigh. New France was found to open intoregions of vast extent; and though not of so luxurious an aspect asVirginia, yet affording great advantages to an enterprising n
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