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CLASH OF EMPIRES

1608-1760

Major wars between France and Britain spread to North America.

When Anglo-French economic and colonial rivalries led to war, the soldiers of New France defended their homes and launched daring raids all along the frontier between the French and British colonies. In 1713, after its defeat in the War of the Spanish Succession, France ceded much of Acadia (now New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island) to Britain and abandoned its claims to Newfoundland.

France retained Cape Breton Island where, between 1720 and 1745, it built the fortress of Louisbourg to protect French shipping and fisheries in the western Atlantic and Gulf of St. Lawrence. In response, the British established a naval base at Halifax in 1749. By this time, the population of Britain’s North American colonies exceeded one million, compared to 65,000 in New France.


CLASH OF EMPIRES
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New France, War of the Spanish Succession, Acadia, Louisbourg
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