HIS263Y1 Lecture 7: Lecture 7.docx
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1969 sparked the first major altercation between european powers in which the first nations tribes played important roles. There were four major wars, the first three were mainly conflicts conducted by colonists employing their own military methods with no support from the motherland: War of the league of augsburg (1689-1697) Much of these battles took place in the backcountry and involved the first nations who joined the battles for reasons of their own. The strategy for the french was to send out raiding parties on land and sea to keep the british colonies disunited and off balance. In the first two wars the british unsuccessfully tried to invade the st. lawrence colonies. In the third war they naval forces captured louisbourg in 1745 and old france set a naval military in retaliation. Unfortunately due to bad weather and disease the ships went back without ever engaging the enemy.
