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Britain forced France out of Canada and India by controlling the sea lanes, even though France had greater population and military resources.
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“And in terms of projecting power,”
“the Brits were able to force the French out of Canada and out of India because they controlled the sea lanes and all of the French had in terms of population,”
“military,”
“a larger force.”Play from 1:28:25Report a misattribution
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