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Essay on Imperial conflict between France and Britain between the years 1663 and 1713
The real history of Franc’s colonial empire began with the foundation of Port Royal in the colony of Acadia in North America. A few years later, in 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec, which was to become the capital of the enormous, but sparsely settled, fur-trading colony of New France which is now called Canada. They even exerted a sort of a loose control over North America trough alliance with their tribes and the French empire started to expand greatly. By the early 1660s, the colonists of New France numbered less than 3,000 after half a century of occupation; the French had been driven out of Port Royal in 1613. Instead, Scottish settlers had begun their own colony of Nova Scotia there in 1628. But then a renewed French colonization, took place and the British saw resolving of the whole Nova Scotia territory to France. The Acadia-Nova Scotia had again been taken over by English power in 1654; to be held until France came back once more in 1670. And thus began the imperial conflict between France and the Great Britain.
In 1663 a new Government was established for the French colonies and it sought vigorously to promote settlement, economic development and military security, The new governing system, brought about by Louis XIV conveyed with it the laws of settlement. A new stream of immigrants arrived from France; they were assisted by the state to many provisions provided they stayed under the French Colonists.
Those who chose to do so were granted lands and thus actually fortifying themselves against any attacks from the South. This was a great step towards the strengthening of the continuously growing vast French empire. During the first decade of royal government, in fact, population climbed to over 9,000. From then on, immigration fell away; France became caught up in costly new wars in Europe......
