. Medieval and modern history; an outline of its development . upon theDutch Republic, to punish the little state for having dared tocheck by the Triple Alliance his conquests in the Spanish The begin-ning ofgovernmentcolonialpolicy. The first Navigation Act, 1651. Am. Hist. 19. The first colonial war, 1652. In thewars ofLouis XIV. Green, English People, III. 371-375. Englandslast war withHolland inthis age. 314 Struggle for Colojiial Empire [§316 Englandfighting forHolland. Netherlands, the French monarch had the aid of Charles a secret treaty and for an annual pension, until
. Medieval and modern history; an outline of its development . upon theDutch Republic, to punish the little state for having dared tocheck by the Triple Alliance his conquests in the Spanish The begin-ning ofgovernmentcolonialpolicy. The first Navigation Act, 1651. Am. Hist. 19. The first colonial war, 1652. In thewars ofLouis XIV. Green, English People, III. 371-375. Englandslast war withHolland inthis age. 314 Struggle for Colojiial Empire [§316 Englandfighting forHolland. Netherlands, the French monarch had the aid of Charles a secret treaty and for an annual pension, until inthe last part of the war public opinion forced him to with-draw. This was the last war which England made uponHolland, the last war between them until Holland joined theenemies of England in the war of the American the later wars of Louis XIV. the two countries were alliesagainst the French. But these long and, during some of thetime, desperate wars had exhausted the wealth and greatlyweakened the power of the Dutch. It was too small a state. Champlain In the age ofLouis XIV. for SO long and violent a strain. On the other hand theEnglish commerce had been rapidly extending as the Dutchdeclined, and England now left Holland behind in the raceas both had earlier distanced Portugal and Spain. 316. The Beginning of Rivalry with France. — But thesewars of Louis XIV. were not over before it became evidentto the colonists in North America, and more slowly to thegovernment at home, that there was a new and perhaps §§317^18] Colonial Wars 315 more dangerous rival in the field, with whom a conflict mustnow begin. This was France. The French had established a settlement in North Amer- In Northica, in 1605, before the English, but the English colonies, Af^^ begun, filled up more rapidly with settlers. On the cohllesother hand the French occupation was more widely extended, they came to hold, before the close of the seventeenthcentury, an important str
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