“Like the French and Indian War a half-century earlier, this was a European struggle that — messily, maddeningly and, ultimately, murderously — lapped up upon the eastern shores of the New World. In so doing, it forced men to fight a war whose causes they barely understood even though the stakes could barely be larger — control of the wild, rich and mostly unexplored land mass of North America.”
An article by David Shribman from Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, in The Mercury.