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For over a century and a half, several European powers including England, France, Spain, Sweden, and Holland vied for control over the North American continent, but England finally emerged victorious. ... The Utrecht treaties of 1714 resulting from that war boosted England’s stature in North America by giving them control over the previously French-held territories of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and the Hudson Bay area. Just over a quarter century later, the War of the Austrian Succession followed, trailed closely by what was called the Seven Years’ War in Europe and the French and Indian War in North America. England and her allies’ triumph in the latter cinched more land and a win in the North American colonial race once and for all, as the rearrangement of maps after the 1763 Treaty of Paris showed.
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