What is the importance or effect of these

1. France is a latecomer in the scramble for New World real estate.
2. French Catholic missionaries, notably the Jesuits, labored zealously to save the Indians for Christ and from the fur-trappers.
3. William Pitt, the elder, becomes the prime minister of Great Britain .
4. Chief Pontiac tries to drive the British out of the Ohio Valley

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