North America. Its outcome was of vast importance. Had France won, it would have changed the destiny of the new world. War followed war. Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the final and decisive French and Indian War came rapidly one1692. Witchcraft delusion at Salem.
1689–1697. King William's War.
1702–1713. Queen Anne's War.
1739. War between England and Spain.
1741–1748. King George's War.
1752. The "New Style" adopted in the British dominions. Sept. 2 being called Sept. 14.
1755. Braddock's defeat.
1755. Lisbon earthquake.
1757. Lord Clives wins India for England.
1763. End of the French and Indian War.
1763. The conspiracy of Pontiae. after the other.
The lack of union among the thirteen Colonies and the long unprotected border gave the French a great advantage. As these wars were but the echoes of European struggles, England had all that she could manage at home. The Colonies soon found that they could not rely on the mother country, that they must fight for themselves, whatever were the odds against them, or be pushed into the Atlantic.
Required Reading. — "The Story of the French and English Wars," in Parkman's Conspiracy of Poutine, I. 95–141.
Union — Here was born the first real idea of union — union against France. It was born of the neglect from England of her American offspring, it was nourished by the foolish continental wars she indulged in, wars which in America at least, were without results or glory.
In 1690, delegates from Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New York had met in New York to concert measures against the French, and this had been the beginning of many similar conventions. The
