This is William Shirley
King
George’s War, also known as the War of Austrian Succession 1740-1748, took
place in the mid-18th century involving France and Great Britain in
the colonies of New York, Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, and Nova Scotia. The
war began because there was an issue between the boundary lines of these
colonies due to the fact that the French and the British wanted dominance in
the European colonies and also wanted control over the Ohio Valley. Both of the
countries had amalgamated with the Native Americans to attain a copious amount of
solders to fight the bloody gruesome war. The attacks for the French and also
the British were mainly raids against each other; it was not a planned time or
place it was about the element of surprise to gain the upper hand in the
battle. In which the Native Americans would help their allies through the land because
they knew how to navigate around the grounds, the French and the British were grateful
to include them in their army but would still put the Natives in the beginning
rows of their troops just because there were not afraid to lose them in the
bloody battle.
However, during one of these raids
the French were defeated in 1745 by the William Shirley the governor of
Massachusetts who seized the French’s fortress of Louisbourg located on the
Island of Cape Breton on the province of Nova Scotia. In which the French did
not gain back until the end of the war three years later, which was in
gratitude to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. During the battles of the
British and the French they lost many adult males in the colonies, however, it pierced
the northern British colonies a bit more in their population because their loss
was about 8 percent. The war was resolved but at the end nothing actually
changed because the territorial issues were still occurring and no one was a
peace. The treaty would return Louisbourg to France and would help the French
empire gain some of their economic status back because it was decreasing.
King George’s War affected the
economic status on the French Colonial Empire because Fort Louisbourg was a
money maker for fur trade in which ended once it was captured by the British. The
fort has access to the St. Lawrence River which was one of Frances major part
of the empire in Quebec and Montreal that would rely on to reach the Atlantic
Ocean. The British destroyed the communication between the French and the Native
Americans when Louisbourg was attained, in which the fur trade was greatly
affected. The British had cut off the economic flow because the French
merchants could not attain any good to trade with Native Americans for money in
which affected the French colonies a great deal. However, when the French were
losing loads of money the British were gaining money through the fur trade and
became partners with many of the Native Americans in the region.
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