British Policy in the Illinois Country, 1763-1768 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Carter, Clarence Edwin

9780266914044: British Policy in the Illinois Country, 1763-1768 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266914047 ISBN 13: 9780266914044

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from British Policy in the Illinois Country, 1763-1768

Louis XIV and his ministers her boundaries had beon'pushed east ward and westward, which seriously threatened the balance of power on the continent. Until 1749 England and Austria had been in al lianes against their traditional enemy, while in the Austrian Suc cess1on France had lent her aid to rrussia in the dismemberment of the Austrian dominions, at the same time extending her own power in the interior of America and India. In the interval of nominal peace after the treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle in 1749, preparations were begun for another contest. The astute diplomacy of Kaunitz ton France from her traditional enmity and secured her as ar open ally for Naria Theresa in her war of reve-ge. While the European situation was giving occasion for ner alisnments of powers, affairs in America were becoming were and more important as between France and England. Here for over a century the two powers had been ri vals for the territorial and commercial suiromacv.

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