'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...