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In the middle of the 18th century, New France accounted for 60,000 people while the British colonies had more than one million people. This placed the colony at a great military disadvantage against the British. The war between the colonies resumed in 1744, lasting until 1748. A final and decisive war began in 1754.
The largest colonies were the general governorate of French Indochina (grouping five separate colonies and protectorates), with 23.0 million, the general governorate of French West Africa (grouping eight separate colonies), with 14.9 million, the general governorate of Algeria (grouping three departments and four Saharan territories), with 7.2 ...
The British economy had begun to grow rapidly at the end of the 17th century and, by the mid-18th century, small factories in Britain were producing much more than the nation could consume. Britain found a market for their goods in the British colonies of North America, increasing her exports to that region by 360% between 1740 and 1770.
[citation needed] The native people of North America did not die out nearly as rapidly nor as greatly as those in Central and South America due in part to their exclusion from British society. The indigenous people continued to be stripped of their native lands and were pushed further out west. [40]
Coin circulation had also begun to wane. Because of this, the United States began to print paper money and bills of credit to raise income. This proved unsuccessful, inflation skyrocketed, and the new paper money's value diminished. A popular saying circulated in the colonies because of this: anything of little value became "not worth a ...
A total of 1,600 people left New France by that clause, but only 270 of them were French Canadians. [21] Some claim that there was a deliberate British policy to limit emigration to avoid strengthening other French colonies. [21] Article IV of the treaty allowed Catholicism to be practiced in Canada. [28]
The French feared that their colonies were vulnerable to a potential attack from its neighboring colonies. In 1681, French nobleman Robert Cavelier de La Salle launched an expedition down the Mississippi River from New France, at first believing he would find a path to the Pacific Ocean. [1] Instead, La Salle found a route to the Gulf of Mexico.
The team wanted to give players the freedom to make choices while maintaining interest in the story. [32] The game features over 400 speaking actors [ 32 ] and over 60,000 lines of dialogue, including over 7,700 [ b ] for CJ; [ 49 ] it broke a Guinness World Record for the largest video game voice cast with 861 credited actors. [ 50 ]