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Why did the Iroquois attack New France?

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The French and Iroquois Wars (also called the Iroquois Wars or the Beaver Wars) were an intermittent series of conflicts fought in the late 17th century in eastern North America, in which the Iroquois sought to expand their territory and take control of the role of middleman in the fur trade between the French and the ...

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Answer: growing Iroquois frustration with the increased French incursions into their territory, ongoing concern about French Marquis de Denonville 's attack of 1687, and was encouraged by the settlers of New England as a way to leverage power against New France during King William's War.

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