Events

• 1720-60 - The Chickasaw
  Chickasaw
  The Chickasaw are Native American people originally from the region that would become the Southeastern United States...
  
   fight the French and the Choctaw
  Choctaw
  The Choctaw are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States...
  
   in the Southeast.
• c. 1720: French
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   forts along the Mississippi River
  Mississippi River
  The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...
  
   spread northward from New Orleans.
• To compensate for their loss, the French build a fortress at Louisbourg on the southeast tip of Cape Breton Island
  Cape Breton Island
  Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. It likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French demonym for Brittany....
  
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• Lord Baltimore sponsors expedition to bring settlers to Newfoundland.

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