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Title: Essentials in English history (from the earliest records to the present day)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Albert Perry, 1862-1911 Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943
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Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ilt a line of forts to de-fend their claim. The Britishcolonists, however, formed a company to settle the Ohiovalley, and the first clash of arms took place about fifty milessoutheast of Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburg (July 4, 1754). Within a year the two parent nations had drifted into acondition of war, though without any formal proclamation.Campaigns were planned: (1) against Eort Duquesne, tocontrol access to the Ohio valley; (2) against Niagara, to cutoff Canada from Ohio ; (3) against Crown Point, and thence toQuebec. The first expedition, under Braddock, failed throughunskillful generalship; the second was abandoned after afutile advance to Oswego, on Lake Ontario; and the thirdresulted only in the building of Fort William Henry by theBritish and of Ticonderoga by the French. Meanwhile Maria Theresa, smarting under concessions madeto Frederick the Great during the Austrian Succession War,was intriguing with France to crush Prussia, and to gain to One of Her Majestys High-landers.
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SCALE OF MILES 6 6o liw 200 i3>o L.UP0ATE8. ENO^, N.Y^ I r-~ 421 422 STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE her side not only France but also Saxony and Russia. Great 488. Prepa- Britain, unwilling to see France enriched, and anxious to th*^s^ ^°^ protect the Hanoverian possessions of George II., threw Years War in her lot with Prussia, and thus the French and Indian War merged into the great Seven Years War. The crisis of the war brought into prominence a new states-man of the first rank, William Pitt, who, as Secretary of State 489 p r ^^^ ^^^ ministries nominally headed by Devonshire and of William Newcastle, really directed the war. Pitt first set himself Fitt to work to cliange the conditions of Whig power. He gave up bribery, and appealed directly to the sentiment ofnationality and loyalty in the English people, and thus hesecured a Parliament more nearly representing the Englishpeople. He reorganized the army, replacing inefficient officersappointed through favor with others selected for meri

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