 Complete the following phrase:  In the New World, conflict had already begun between Britain and France. The French colonies were at an enormous demographic disadvantage; there were less than 70,000 French colonists spread over a territory from the Saint Lawrence River to the Great Lakes extending down the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys down to Louisiana named for Louiss grandfather, Louis XIV; compared with 300,000 in the British colonies. To defend its territories. France had constructed 