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Excerpt from The New Complete History of the United States of America, Vol. 5: Including the Traditions and Speculations of the Pre-Columbian Voyagers, the Discovery and Settlement of the New Continent, Its Development Under Colonial Government and the Establishment and Progress of the Republic
The final contest between France and England for supremacy on the North American continent 'is known in history as the French and Indian War, and also as the Seven Years' War. We have used the former repeatedly, but in this chapter we adopt the latter as the more defi nite and satisfactory term of the two. Before this war there had been a number of French and Indian wars; indeed, there was hardly a time in our colonial history when some such contest was not in progress. But there was only one final and conclusive struggle between the anglo-saxons on the one side and the French and the red men on the other. This was the Seven Years' War. The period covered by this war, from its inception to the signing of the treaty of peace, was about seven years; that is to say, from the Spring of 1755 to the autumn of 1762. For some time be fore and after the first and last of these dates, hostilities of a more or less serious nature pre vailed; but in its official existence the contest embraced the period named.
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