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HALF-CENTURY OF
CONFLICT.


FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN
NORTH AMERICA.

PART SIXTH.

BY

FRANCIS PARKMAN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.


VOL. I.


BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1898.




_Copyright, 1892_,
By Francis Parkman.

_Copyright, 1897_,
By Little, Brown, and Company.


University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.




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PREFACE.


This book, forming Part VI. of the series called France and England in
North America, fills the gap between Part V., "Count Frontenac," and
Part VII., "Montcalm and Wolfe;" so that the series now forms a
continuous history of the efforts of France to occupy and control this
continent.

In the present volumes the nature of the subject does not permit an
unbroken thread of narrative, and the unity of the book lies in its
being throughout, in one form or another, an illustration of the
singularly contrasted c