January 13, 2006

'The War That Made America'

By JOHN M. MCCARDELL JR.

"All, and more than all, that France had lost England had won." Thus wrote the great historian Francis Parkman in the concluding pages of his seven-volume epic France and England in North America, published over a century ago. "It is true," he continued, "that a heavy blow was soon to fall upon her; her own folly was to alienate the eldest and greatest of her offspring. But nothing could rob her of the glory of giving birth to the United States." Part of the global Seven Years' War, the

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