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Louisburg at the time of the siege. ' 
attack, and after a siege of six weeks the mighty fortress fell. 
At the end of the war Louisburg, by the treaty of Aix-la- 
Chapelle, was given back (1748) to France, and the great vic- 
tory, after all, seemed hardly worth while. Nevertheless the 
taking of Louisburg taught the colonists that they were no 
longer weaklings and that, if necessary, they could do still 
Breater things. 
77. The Ohio Valley Claimed by Both French and English. 
—No sooner was King George’s War at an end than the French 
and English colonists began to quarrel over the possession of 
the Ohio valley. England claimed the magnificent country on 
the ground that Cabot’s discovery made England the owner of 
all North America, and upon the further ground that the Iro- 
Quois Indians who lived in the Ohio country. had acknowledged 
themselves to be English subjects and had granted their Ohio 
lands to England. 
France claimed the Ohio region upon the ground of La Salle’s