The colonial wars had a devastating effect on the people in the colonies, but according to the textbook, until 1756 the conflicts in North America

"Milestones in the History of U. S. Foreign Relations" has been retired and is no longer ... The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger ... Mountains, but beyond lay New France, a very large, sparsely settled colony that ... and captured the British possession of Minorca in the Mediterranean in 1756.