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to stupendous English claims. Did this
dominion carry with i dominion over me
the allegiance Of the Five Nations carried
not only the Indians own hereditary ter
ritories. but also all the regions OF lro-
OTTAWA river and the Alleghanies to the
mississippi This. OF course, would break
through the heart of New France, and 1t
was claim that could be admitted by
France only ON the ground that she had
no possession in America that she could
hope to defend
Thus it will be seen that the treaty OF
Utrecht. while it made some important
concessions in America. really after all
merely postponed the day of Anal settle
ment. The limits OF Acadia. the boundary
line between French Canada and the
British colonies and the great West, were
all left unsettled. The attempt to settle
them was sure to .rekndle war. The thir-
alton of chronic. smothered war" was a
period OF dispute and preparation. First
there were disputes over the limits OF
Acadia. France had been left in undis-
and this she now proceeded to use as
the basis of her operations for the re-
covery OF her concessions. In the second
place. there was difference over the
northern boundary of New England and
the control OF the Indian territory In that
region. The. third and greatest question
81 all nh was whether ,t France or Great Brit
issippi and the Great Lakes, and with
them the control Of the continent This
M ..r the triple problem says Parkman:
colonies for more than 1 generation. TIL
It found its solution Ia the Seven Years
In l7ss began the Spanish war-a war
that Is but little noticed In our books
and that has almost passed out Of the
memory Of men. 1t IL remembered now
s sn1sy ~ the sns stosy 81 Jsnsn ssr
Spanish Florida and the claims of the
Spaniards to the right of search in the
spanish main. Spain was protecting her
MES by drastic processes, and Jenkins
displayed his severed ear In parliament as
proof positive of such Spanish cruelty
and aggression as called for vengeance
and war. The war led to a war with
France. Louisburg. captured by the New
EngIanders. was restored by the truce of
174S. and the rival nations were facing one
ANOTHER for the final struggle;
30 far an America IL concerned, have
been indicated by what has already been
written. The outcome Of the struggle Is
Of Paris OF 1858. This treaty has been
properly pronounced the greatest treaty
since that ut Westphalia u6lg established
the balance Of modern Europe. 1t marks
an epoch In universay history turning
point not only in the history Of America.
but In the history Of the world. OF the
war which II closed, Green has said with
victories determined for ages to come the
destinIes Of mankind. Quebec was one or
these three victories and with Wolfe's
triumph ,Ea,.a az Quebec beFsn the history Of
briefly summarize the situation in which
this treaty left the territorial possessions
Of the leading European states In Amer
lea.
/. spain--she secured the restoration OF
Havana and Cuba, captured by the Eng
lish during the war; she coded Florida
TO Great Britain. and in compensation for
island OF New Orleans and Louisiana
west of the Mississippi.
France-To France the treaty was
tory. she lost her merchant and her
military marine, and with her hopes OF
empire In India she surrendered Canada
to England and Louisiana to Spain. and
lea.
5. Engiand--The treaty exalted Britain
among the nations. She won for the first
tim time nsr Tord empire BE Besides giving
In India, the war gave the realisations
Of her most sanguine hopes In America.
she received Canada from France and
to Britain from the Atlantic to the Mis-
sissippi II was apparent that America was
to become English. The great outcome or
lish colonies we're no longer between
the upper and the neither millstones.
They were relieved from fear OF the Span
iah power on the south and OF the French
Tor expansion westward by removing
an enemy" says the English historian,
Green. whose dread had knit the colo
nists to the mother country. and BY
breaking through tho line with which
France had barred them from the basin
Of the Mississippi Pitt had laid the foun-
dation OF tho great republic OF the est
n A~