ey didn't reach the numbers that the English colonists did (Brown 127).
             The French and the English had been battling in Europe since the beginning so it was of no surprise that they would also battle in the New World. Unrest intensified in the early 16th century. In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht that ended the War of Spanish Succession between Great Britain and France dealt France a humiliating blow (Brown 147). In the peace agreement, France transferred to England its claims to the Hudson Bay territories, to New Foundland and to Acadia. Two events in the following years were characteristic of the increasing hostility between the two. In 1745, an army of New Englanders captured the French
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