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PERIOD 2 1607–1754
Colonial America
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British Colonial Banner, 1745 This cotton banner was carried the French for control of North America in the eighteenth
by the British at the siege of the French at Louisbourg (1745), century. While the British soldiers and New England
Nova Scotia, during King George’s War, also known as the colonists who carried out the siege captured Louisbourg,
War of Austrian Succession (1744–1748). King George’s War was the fort was later returned to the French as part of the Treaty
one of many colonial wars fought between the British and of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the war in 1748.
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