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 | | During the first two years of the war, French and Native American forces were largely victorious, winning an important and surprising victory in defending Fort Duquesne. |
 | | In 1757, however, the British statesman William Pitt, 1st earl of Chatham, a pro-Prussian, was given complete charge of British foreign policy and appointed the British general James Wolfe to command the troops in the New World. |
 | | A more important series of engagements was fought in the Netherlands, where in 1703 the English commander, John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, at the head of an Anglo-Dutch-German army, reduced the strongholds of the French. |
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