The North America Continent was not the main battlefield of the Seven Years' War, yet the aftermath of the war had significantly altered the situation in the British colonies on the continent. ... An all-out independent war spreading over the entire North American Continent seemed predictable because the habitants, early French settlers in Canada, were from Britain's archenemy France; nevertheless, the Province of Quebec did not rise up against Britain. ... Both the First and Second Continental Congresses addressed several "letters to the inhabitants of Canada" which urged ...

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The delegates were unhappy with England, but were not yet ready to declare war. ... The battle of Concord and its "shot heard round the world" would mark the unofficial beginning of the colonies war for Independence. ... For almost a year the congress tried to work out its differences with England, again without formally declaring war. ... He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. ...

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