frontier wars part one

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Beginnings of French and Indian War in Colonial America

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Professor David Saxe

Penn State University

September 21, 2010

The title of this presentation might easily have been… “Why We Don’t Speak French”

The simple answer is that when the French explorer Champlain visited the north country in the early 1600s, in what is now New York State, he unwittingly stepped into a dispute between the two bitter rivals…. The Mohawks and the Huron… This encounter took place at what was to be a major crossroads of war for the next 160 years…Ft. Ticonderoga….

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