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A School History of the United States

CHAPTER VIII
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B.That from 1754 to 1763, when the struggle was for Louisiana as well as New France.
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The first war, "King William's," was indecisive, but the second, "Queen Anne's," ended (1713) in the transfer of Acadia to England.
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After the treaty of Utrecht, 1713, the French began seriously to take possession of the Mississippi valley, and began a chain of forts to stretch from New Orleans and Mobile to Montreal.
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"King George's War" interrupted this work for a few years (1744-1748), but in 1749 Celeron was sent to bury plates in the valleys of the Allegheny and Ohio and claim them in the name of France.
5.

The next step after claiming the valleys was to take armed possession, and in 1752 the French began to build forts.
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