[A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon]@TWC D-Link bookA History of American Christianity CHAPTER III 8/21
But each successive treaty of peace between England and France confirmed and reconfirmed the French claims to the main part of her American domain.
The advances of French missions and settlements continued southward and westward, in spite of jealousy in European cabinets as the imposing magnitude of the plans of French empire became more distinctly disclosed, and in spite of the struggles of the English colonies both North and South.
When, on the 4th of July, 1754, Colonel George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity, near the fork of the Ohio, to the French, "in the whole valley of the Mississippi, to its headsprings in the Alleghanies, no standard floated but that of France."[22:1] There seemed little reason to doubt that the French empire in America, which for a century and a half had gone on expanding and strengthening, would continue to expand and strengthen for centuries to come.
Sudden as lightning, in August, 1756, the Seven Years' War broke out on the other side of the globe.
The treaty with which it ended, in February, 1763, transferred to Great Britain, together with the Spanish territory of Florida, all the French possessions in America, from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
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