HIS263Y1 Lecture : Clash of Empires - French-English Conflict
Document Summary
Alright, today we"re going to be looking at french-english conflicts, first the ones that occurred during the long peace", then war in the ohio valley and the acadian. First, before we talk about war, we"re going to talk about the influence of previous wars. Despite the signing of the treaty of utrecht, people in the colonies didn"t forget they"d been fighting each other for 40 years. There were many instances of cooperative raids on new england colonies by first. This fighting pretty much stopped at the signing of the treaty of utrecht in 1713, which was not so much an actual peace but rather a shift of effort by the european powers from physical warfare to economic conflict. The expansion of population, economy, and territories meant that by the end of the treaty of utrecht, the new france and new england colonies were too close for comfort.
