. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. The United States—France Driven from America 1557 in America, east of the Mississippi. At the same time France transferred toher ally, Spain, all
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. The United States—France Driven from America 1557 in America, east of the Mississippi. At the same time France transferred toher ally, Spain, all her claims to the region west of the great river. The de-generate Louis XV. thus surrendered an entire continent, which he had madeno effort to save, for Montcalm received practically no assistance in his mag-nificent defence. Spain, on her part, ceded Florida to Great Britain, whichthus became mistress of the entire Atlantic coast. No other treaty has evertransferred the ownership of so enormous a fraction of the surface of the earth. I have yielded it all, said the French minister bitterly, on purpose todestroy the English nation. They have desired American dominion; I meanto give them more than enough of it. Did the sarcastic statesman really seeinto the future? It was the embarrassments resulting from the French andIndian War, that involved England in the struggle with the colonies.
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