History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . ronto. Evennow, therefore, Frances power this side theAtlantic was not visibly shaken. The con-tinental problem remained unsolved. CHAPTER IX. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle had beenmade only because the contestants weretired of fighting. In America, at least,each at once began taking breath and pre-paring to renew the struggle. Not a yearpassed that did not witness border quar-rels more or less bloody. The Frenchauthorities filled the Ohio and Missis-sippi valleys with military po
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . ronto. Evennow, therefore, Frances power this side theAtlantic was not visibly shaken. The con-tinental problem remained unsolved. CHAPTER IX. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle had beenmade only because the contestants weretired of fighting. In America, at least,each at once began taking breath and pre-paring to renew the struggle. Not a yearpassed that did not witness border quar-rels more or less bloody. The Frenchauthorities filled the Ohio and Missis-sippi valleys with military posts ; Englishsettlers pressed persistently into the sameto find homes. In this movement Vir-ginia led, having in 1748 formed, espe-cially to aid western settlement, the OhioCompany, which received from the king agrant of five hundred thousand acres be-yond the Alleghanies. A road was laidout between the upper Potomac and thepresent Pittsburgh, settlements were begun 35° ENGLISH AMERICA [174B along it, and efforts made to conciliate thesavages. One of the frontier villages was at what. is now Franklin, Penn., and the locationinvolved Virginia with the colony of Penn-
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