Our country in war and relations with all nationsA history of war times, and American heroes on land and sea . long their tributaries, instead of betweenthe St. Lawrence and the Mississippi as in our ancienthistory. The surrounding of the English settlements by the Frenchwas what Englishmen most complained of, but their concernwas rather for the good land of the future. The continentwas not crowded with people. The population of theEnglish colonies at this time was reported, pardy by count,partly by estimate, at 1,428,000. The States north of thePotomac had 882,000 white inhabitants and 85,000
Our country in war and relations with all nationsA history of war times, and American heroes on land and sea . long their tributaries, instead of betweenthe St. Lawrence and the Mississippi as in our ancienthistory. The surrounding of the English settlements by the Frenchwas what Englishmen most complained of, but their concernwas rather for the good land of the future. The continentwas not crowded with people. The population of theEnglish colonies at this time was reported, pardy by count,partly by estimate, at 1,428,000. The States north of thePotomac had 882,000 white inhabitants and 85,000 blacks ;south of the Potomac, 283,000 whites and 178,000 Canadian French numbered less than 12,000. In 1688the French census for North America showed only 11,, possessing the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi,sought to connect those enormous continental channels byway of the Ohio and Lake Erie, and with the Indians on thegreat lakes and rivers, iriade wonderful voyages with canoes. M. du Quesne, Governor of Canada, early in 1753,detached M. Sieur de St. Pierre with a sufficient force to.
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