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The French and Indian War

The French and Indian was a series war between the French and the British starting as the early 1760s .The French and Indian War took place from 1754-1763. In the 1750s the French and the British were already fighting in Europe. That’s how the war spread out to North America. That’s when all the chaos and disagreement started between them .The French and British were claiming territories.
British soldiers fought against French soldiers to settle the disagreement they had between each other. Native Americans were also fought in this war. They joined the French because they feared that the British would take over their land.
The war continued for many years it was a terrible war between them. Thousands of soldiers die during the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War was known as the Seven Year War sometimes it as referred as the Great Empire. George Washington was known as the leader of the war. He led the war till the end and died December 14, 1799 at age 64.
The turning point of the war was in 1759. That’s when James Wolfe captured Quebec gaining advantaged of the war. However the war continued for four more years. Finally in 1763 both Britain and France signed the Treaty of Paris . (The Treaty of Paris is a peace of agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recognition of the Independence of the United States officially ending the war.) After signing the Treaty of Paris Britain gained all

The French And Indian War

Ginger Phennel 9/17/14 1st period The French and Indian War altered the political, economical, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies. The English had a significant amount of debt from the war, and in an effort to fix their dilemma; they unfairly enforced taxation without representation. This led to rising tension between America and the Mother Country. After the French and Indian War, the countries colonizing North America shifted. English colonies were now the main…

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The French And Indian War

The True Scoundrels The French and Indian War was a major war that took place in 1756 and came to its end in 1763. It was a war of great wins and loses. It all started when the French could not be honorable and had to steal the British’s land that was just given to them by the Half-King. The British went to where the Half-King was located in order to try to obtain this piece of land called the Ohio River Valley. The Half-King was a very respected Indian ruler who was in charge of the Ohio River…

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The French And Indian War

history October 24, 2014 The French and Indian war The French and Indian war had many effects on the American colonies. Throughout the 18th century American colonies saw salutary neglect. Relations between colonies and Britain were fair and none had problems with one another. That however was altered due to the effects of the war. The French and Indian war altered the relations and tension arose, however it was the economic status of Britain that was in debt after the war and a need to impose taxes…

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French And Indian War

write an essay back in May about the French and Indian War's effect on the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies and I'm like "THIS IS PERFECT CRACK MATERIAL. THE FIRST CRACK THIS AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS HAS GIVEN ME ALL YEAR. SWEET." I don't own Hetalia. The year was 1763. England and France had been fighting for 9 years with their colonies- "America." "Yeah?" America handed off a gun with a price tag attached to it to a grinning French soldier. "Why are you trading... WITH…

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French And Indian War Essay

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War. The same war is referred to in Canadian history as the War of the Conquest. The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, who declared war on each other in 1756. In the same year, the war escalated from a regional affair into a world-wide conflict…

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Essay on French and Indian war

French Indian War The middle of the seventeenth century marked the collision point between the two competing world empires England and France. Two inconclusive wars during the first part of this century left world supremacy in question. The logical next point of conflict lay in the loosely claimed, mostly unexplored territory west of the British colonies, America’s Ohio River Valley. With a significant and well established presence for both England and France in early America, this conflict was…

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European courts and diplomats were moving ever closer to war. It would prove larger, more brutal, and costlier than anyone anticipated, and if would have an outcome more decisive than any war in the previous three centuries. Historians usually call it the Seven Years' War. Modern Americans, recalling a few disconnected episodes — Braddock's defeat, the Fort William Henry "massacre," the Battle of Quebec — know it as the French and Indian War. Neither name communicates the conflict's immensity and…

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DBQ: The French And Indian War

The French & Indian War altered the political, economic, ideological relations, and the geographical influences between Britain and its American colonies by Britain owning the most land in North America, taxes being levied in the colonies, and people thinking differently after the war. Before the French & Indian War in 1754 the French owned a lot of North America, but when Britain won the French & Indian War the British also won a lot of the French land (Doc A). The English took a lot of the French…

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The French & Indian War 1755 As the British pushed north into traditionally French territory, Governor-General Vaudreuil in Québec anticipated attack on French settlements in the Champlain valley. He ordered Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to construct a fort south of Fort St. Frédéric (Crown Point) that would cover the portage between Lakes George and Champlain. Construction of Fort Carillon began in the fall, and continued for the next four years. 1756 On the sandy plain below the Heights, French…

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Krippendorf US History II Test 1 French and Indian War The French and Indian War was a power struggle between English and French settlers in America. Their main dispute was over who had control of the land. And of course in the 1750s this was a huge issue. The English settlers and the French settlers believed they owned the rights’ to the Ohio River Valley area. George Washington led a troop of English forces on a March to Fort Duquesne in order to force the French out of the area. While passing…

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