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the English king, Charles II, granted his brother, the Duke of York, permission to drive out the Dutch.
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about 1.2 million English settlers lived in 13 colonies from Maine to Georgia.
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a dispute over land claims in the Ohio Valley led to a war between the British and French on the North American continent.
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In North America, the British colonists, with the help of the British Army, defeated the French
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the war, the British seized control of the eastern half of North America