French and Indian War

The French and Indian war raged from 1754 to 1763. Its roots began long before the first shot was fired, about 100 years before between the French and the English. The French and Indian War was not fought between the French and the Indians, but the two allied with the Canadians against the English. It was the catalyst for the Seven Years War, from 1756-1763, which was brought over into Europe, the Carnatic Wars, and it eventually lead to the American Revolution.

By the late 1600’s to the beginning of the 1700’s, the colonization of the America’s by the English had been reaping great rewards. The English controlled much of the eastern seaboard, and were highly interested into further expansionism. The English often moved into the French territory and claimed the land as theirs. The French had established a vast area from Louisiana to the south to Canada to the north bordering the Spaniards to the left and the English to the right. The French had small frontier villages with ample land for the English to take.

The French used their land for the same purposes the English used theirs, for trade and manifest destiny. However the French were frontier trappers who moved and settled in smal

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As soon as France heard word of the assault on the Lys the peace talks were stopped. Not knowing if the French and the English were at war or not, the French pulled along side of the English Dunkirk and asked. Proclaiming, “I believe that I can save this nation and that no one else can,” he abandoned Europe as a main theater of action against the French and threw his nation’s military might into the American campaign. A fierce land battle ensued between the French and the British aided by the Second Battalion of Royal Americans. Mean while the English were raining heavy artillery upon the French. The French along with the Indians lead attacks against the English until they moved out of their territory. The French being well aware of their surroundings, made good use of it while ambushing the English as they marched in columns toward the French to attack Fort Duqesne. “With the English in control of the heights, Montcalm, and the French army demoralized, Governor Vaudreuil, for now, had to abandon Quebec, leaving it’s people to the conquerors. However, the English too had Iroquois mercenaries with them. Some Indians became sick and brought back the viruses to their villages, were their families contracted the sickness, this took many of the Indians out of the War. They French established a fort called Fort Le Boeuf just down river from Fort Duquesne next to lake Erie; this was already claimed as English territory. The French now for the first time had to worry about their communications with Montreal, and this was to become a source of increasing concern as additional ships passed up the St.

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