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Only absolute necessity could condone this action, for it at once reopened the whole Acadian question and placed it where it had been before the outbreak of the war.

For the eight years succeeding the conclusion of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, nominal peace existed in America.

But it was a very hollow truce at best.

Both parties were firmly convinced that a desperate conflict alone could ulti mately settle the questions at issue between France and Great Britain in North America; both were as equally convinced that this struggle could not be long delayed.

The questions at issue one may group generally under two main heads, those which concerned Acadia, and those which had to do with the western territories.