French, English And Spanish In The 1700's

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The excitement of land acquisition between the French, English and Spanish in the 1700’s was rampant. Prior to the Treaty of Lancaster in 1744, the French, English, and Spanish settlements already experienced major conflicts with one another concerning borders and control of territories within the North American Continent. Wars such as King William’s War, (1689-97) which was a struggle between the British and the French in Europe and in the colonies to gain territory, and Queen Anne’s War(1702-1713), where the Spanish and the French, allied with the Native Americans, aggressively fought for English territory in South Carolina and in New England respectively, displays the desire for land by all parties in America. The most desired land that

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