Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars 1689-1763 - Betsy Maestro

Descriere Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars 1689-1763 - Betsy Maestro

Discusses the relations between the European colonists and the Native Americans; the disputes between settlers from France, England, and Spain; and the role these conflicts played in the history of North America. The Maestros have collaborated on numerous award-winning nonfiction titles for children. Full color. \n \nAs early as 1630, Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands had settlements or colonies in North America. Always looking for ways to expand their territory, these European nations were constantly at war with one another over trade, borders, and religious differences. Beginning in 1689, their conflicts in Europe spread across the Atlantic to America. Over the next seventy years, competing European powers would battle for control of the New World. The winner would take the prize -- all of North America.\n \nStruggle for a Continent tells the riveting story of the French and Indian Wars seventy-four years of fighting that determined the destiny of the future United States.\n \n Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2001, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council\n

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Harpercollins

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9780688134501

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1

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