Throughout the European colonization of North America by the French and British, tenions between French and British settlers in North America (traders, poachers and the like) built up a deep resentment against each other since they often competed for the same land, same "markets" to trade their goods with the Native Americans, etc. However, the animosity between the two parties goes back a long time, even before the colonization of America, to the times of the One Hundred Years' War, and perhaps, even log before.