translate English to French: Moreover, much as they disliked war, the French Canadians had been compelled to resort to it relentlessly against the Iroquois, from 1641 to 1666, and from 1684 to 1701  the year of the Great Peace  and then against the British, in particular those of the New 30
Ils avaient construit, avant la Conquête, pas moins de cinquante «forts» qui servaient aussi d’entrepôts de la traite  une trentaine dans le centre-nord des États-Unis actuels et 30