. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. Ill LESSON.—During these -wars the colonists captured Port Royal,Acadia, and Louisburg. England and France claimed the same territoryin the interior and the French troubled the English settlers there. walls thirty feet liigb, at Louisburg, on Cape Breton was the strongest fort in America, and the French thoughtit could not be taken. Colonel Pepperell of Maine, with a few thousand NewEngland settlers, was sent to capture it. Six weeks later hesent word to the colonies that he had taken
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. Ill LESSON.—During these -wars the colonists captured Port Royal,Acadia, and Louisburg. England and France claimed the same territoryin the interior and the French troubled the English settlers there. walls thirty feet liigb, at Louisburg, on Cape Breton was the strongest fort in America, and the French thoughtit could not be taken. Colonel Pepperell of Maine, with a few thousand NewEngland settlers, was sent to capture it. Six weeks later hesent word to the colonies that he had taken Louisburg, inspite of its granite walls and big guns. England made a treaty with France at the close of the in-tercolonial wars, and gave Louisburg back to her, to the greatdisgust of its captors. 2. WASHINGTON AND THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763.) As the years passed by, and the French and the Englishsettlements increased in numbers and spread over more terri-tory, it soon became understood that, before long, there wouldbe war between these nations to decide t
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