. European history : an outline of its development. if France had beenfor her, England would have been against her, as was thecase in the next war. Before this European war broke outEngland and Spain had come to blows, in consequence ofthe attempts of the Spanish to break up the English com-merce with their colonies. Throughout this was for Eng-land a commercial war, and this clearness of aim went far tobalance the better positionof France in the colonies,for France did not realizeeven yet as clearly as Eng-land what was at stake. The war, which lastedfrom 1741 to 1748, didnot end in the trium
. European history : an outline of its development. if France had beenfor her, England would have been against her, as was thecase in the next war. Before this European war broke outEngland and Spain had come to blows, in consequence ofthe attempts of the Spanish to break up the English com-merce with their colonies. Throughout this was for Eng-land a commercial war, and this clearness of aim went far tobalance the better positionof France in the colonies,for France did not realizeeven yet as clearly as Eng-land what was at stake. The war, which lastedfrom 1741 to 1748, didnot end in the triumph ofeither nation, but the pe-riod is characterized by avery rapid extension ofthe French power in In-dia, and hardly less so inAmerica. In India theFrench interests were inthe hands of Dupleix, a most able and successful statesman, who marked out the wayto empire which the English have since followed, — conquest France hasthe bestposition. In Europethe War ofthe ,EftgUshPeople, England andSpain at war,1739-. 4i8 Struggle for Colonial Empire [§§4i5)4i^ and inAmerica. The captureand return ,HalfCentury,Chaps. XX. The war doesnot stop ,Montcalm,Chap. VII. here, alliance there, and drilled native soldiers to supplementhis European troops. Had the French ofificers in India beenmore ready to cooperate heartily with one another, and hadhome government been willing to put its strength into theirsupport, the issue would most likely have been different. InAmerica, also, the French became during this war con-scious of the great advantages of their geographical positionin the interior of the continent, and they began to connectCanada and Louisiana with a chain of fortified posts alongthe great rivers, — a measure which excited the serious alarmof the English colonists. 415. The Close of the War. — Only one event of thewar is important here. That was the capture, in 1745, ofthe strong fortress of Louis
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