Great Britain had succeeded to the policy as well as the possessions of her predecessor, and, strange to say, had become almost equally hostile to the colonists of her own stock.

As France had striven for half a century, so England now in her turn strove, to bar out the settlers of English race from the country beyond the Alleghanies.

The British Crown, Parliament, and people were a unit in wishing to keep woodland and prairie for the sole use of their own merchants, as regions tenanted only by Indian hunters and French trappers and traders.

They became the guardians and allies of all the Indian tribes.

On the other hand, the American backwoodsmen were resolute in their determination to go in and possess the land.