Centennial Historical Address —— Delivered at Ravenna, Portage Co., Ohio, July 4th, 1876

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ISBN: 9781333319908 出版年：2016 页码：17 Lucius V Bierce Forgotten Books

England and France now became proprietors of this valu~ ed'prize, and itsoon became evident that. )th nations were prepar ing to test their exclusive claim by an arbiis ation of arms. The In dians, who were real owners were not consulted in the matter. In 1754 the long threatened contest began, and continued till 1760, when France was completely defeated, and by the Treaty of Paris, in 1763 she transferred her title to America to England, and England, by the, Treaty of 1783, at the close of the Revolutionary War, surrendered her title, south of Canada, to the United States.