The French and Indian War is the common U.S. name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756 the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war. In Canada, it is usually just referred to as the Seven Years' War, although French speakers in Quebec often call it La guerre de la Conquête ("The War of Conquest"). In Europe, there is no specific name for the North American part of the war. The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Native Americanforcesallied with them. The war was fought primarily along the frontiers between the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia, and began with a d
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| - The French and Indian War is the common U.S. name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756 the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war. In Canada, it is usually just referred to as the Seven Years' War, although French speakers in Quebec often call it La guerre de la Conquête ("The War of Conquest"). In Europe, there is no specific name for the North American part of the war. The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Native Americanforcesallied with them. The war was fought primarily along the frontiers between the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia, and began with a d
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British America
*Iroquois Confederacy
*Catawba
*Cherokee
- France
New France
*Abenaki
*Algonquin
*Caughnawaga Mohawk
*Lenape
*Mi'kmaq
*Ojibwa
*Ottawa
*Shawnee
*Wyandot
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Commanders
| - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm †
Marquis de Vaudreuil
François-Marie de Lignery †
Chevalier de Lévis
Joseph de Jumonville †
- Jeffrey Amherst
Edward Braddock †
James Wolfe †
James Abercrombie
Edward Boscawen
George Washington
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Battles
| - Siege of fort William Henry
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Result
| - Treaty of Paris; Britain cedes all mainland North American claims
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| - The French and Indian War is the common U.S. name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756 the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war. In Canada, it is usually just referred to as the Seven Years' War, although French speakers in Quebec often call it La guerre de la Conquête ("The War of Conquest"). In Europe, there is no specific name for the North American part of the war. The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Native Americanforcesallied with them. The war was fought primarily along the frontiers between the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia, and began with a dispute over the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The dispute resulted in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in May 1754. British attempts at expeditions in 1755, 1756, and 1757 in the frontier areas of Pennsylvania and New York all failed, due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, and effective French and Indian offense. After the disastrous 1757 British campaigns (resulting in a failed expedition against Louisbourg and the Siege of Fort William Henry, which was followed by significant atrocities on British victims by Indians), the British government fell, and Britain was forced to surrender in North America. The Seven years war continued elsewhere and the British won in almost every other major theatre of war.
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