World history/WHME101/Colonial conflicts/Colonial warfare

Reading

Read the following article from the Saylor Foundation. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• What characterised the relationship between Britain and France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

• How were colonists in North America affected?

• What factors contributed to the almost constant warfare during this period?

The Saylor Foundation, 'Colonial Wars', February 2013.

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