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6980043465coureurs de boisFrench-Canadian fur-trappers; literally, "runners of the woods".0
6980043466voyageursFrench-Canadian explorers, adventures, and traders.1
6980043468regularsTrained professional soldiers, as distinct from militia or conscripts.2
6980066117domesticConcerning the internal affairs of a country.3
6980067701ministerIn politics, a person appointed by the head of state to take charge of some department or agency of government.4
6980070561autocraticMarked by strict authoritarian rule, without consent or participation by the populace.5
6980081694peasanta farmer or agricultural laborer, sometimes legally tied to the land.6
6980085205flotillaA fleet of boats, usually smaller vessels.7
6980086214ecologicalConcerning the relations between the biological organisms and their environment.8
6980087805mutinousConcerning revolt by subordinate soldiers or seamen against their commanding officers.9
6980090318strategicConcerning the placement and planned movement of large-scale military forces so as to gain advantage, or usually prior to actual engagement with the enemy.10
6980098447guerilla warfareUnconventional combat waged by small military units using hit-and-run tactics.11
6980101291salliesIn warfare, very rapid military movements, usually by small units against an enemy force or position.12
6980105008commissionsAn official certification granting a commanding rank in the armed forces.13
7058284169HuguenotsFrench Protestants that lived from about 1560 to 1629.14
7058285740Proclamation of 1763An English law enacted after gaining territory from the French at the end of the French and Indian War. It forbade the colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains.15
7058287561Albany CongressA conference in the colonies from June 19 through July 11, 1754. It advocated a union of the British colonies for their security and defense against French.16

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