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Early Detroit
and embraced the whole valley of the Mississippi. But in the comprehensive plans of the French monarch its government assumed an importance greatly disproportioned to its population.
The great contest between England and France for the dominion of the New World, which began with the foundation of Quebec and was terminated just a century and a half thereafter by the victory of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, began to attract the attention of the civilized world.
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