As the colonies were growing in population, and as the charters of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia, and Carolina gave them great stretches of territory in the Mississippi valley, it was inevitable that, sooner or later, a bitter contest for possession of the country should take place between the French and the English in America.
The contest began in 1689, and ended in 1763, and may easily be divided into two periods: 1.

That from 1689 to 1748, when the struggle was for Acadia and New France.2.That from 1754 to 1763, when the struggle was not only for New France, but for Louisiana also.
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The Struggle for Acadia and New France; "King William's War."%--In 1688-89 there was a revolution in England, in the course of which James II.

was driven from his throne, and William and Mary, his nephew and daughter, were seated on it.

James took refuge in France, and when Louis XIV.