Long, Bitter Contest

When France and Great Britain plant colonies in North America during the early 17th Century, those two European kingdoms set the stage for a long struggle that would rage between them for the control of that continent. The conflict begins at the end of 1689 when Claude Frontenac, Governor-General of Canada, orders three forces to go south of the Saint Lawrence River to terrorize the British citizens of New York and New England. The raids spark a 65-year struggle for the North American continent. Caught up in this struggle are Roland Griffith and Craig Cross, two Massachusetts neighbors engaged in a feud that begins over Daphane Richard, a young, French Protestant woman. The feud eventually causes Craig's daughter Monica having to choose whether to stay loyal to him or marry Roland's eldest son, Reggie, a younger man she deeply loves. The choice made by her causes sons and grandsons to become involved in the last two of the French and Indian Wars.