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Article: Proclamation of 1763 result of earlier war, leads to another
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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As most high school students might recall, the end of the French
and Indian War in 1763 gave Britain mastery of the Atlantic Seaboard
and Canada, while France, the loser of that war, had to abandon its
territories in Canada and colonial America, and remove itself from
the New World.
Not surprisingly, the war did not result in the removal of the
Indians. Indians had, after all, been in North America longer than
the French and British combined.
Thus, in 1763, a rather awkward balance of power existed among
the American colonists, the Indians and the British Parliament in
London.
With the French gone, the American colonists, who were rapidly
growing in population, saw an opportunity to expand ...