Seven Years’ War” Major French-British conflict known in North
America as the French and Indian War” ” Boyer page 92”. Both Britain and France
did emerged from king George’s wars so each one prepared for another war.
France decided to regain control of Virginia and Pennsylvania Indian trade,
Virginian sent George to demand that the French abandon their forts. Then, French
decided to go back to their homes again. “France and Britain remained at peace
in Europe until 1756, Washington’s clash with the French had created a virtual
state of war in North America””Boyer page 93”. In 1754 Britain dispatch General
Edward Braddock and some regulars to take Fort Duquesne. Then, there was fight
which ended up with nine hundred soldiers and colonists died including the
General.
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763, France give up all its territories
on the North American. After that, French colonists from Quebec to Louisiana
became British or Spanish citizens. They called the end of French in North
America (1760-1763). Also, that led to increase of Spain land size and became
Spain’s New World Empire. British victory over the French was useful for
increase their land size and citizens. However, the worse victory was drove the
British debt even higher during spending a lot of money on wars. So, British
stopped distributing food and ammunition to their Indian allies and it led to
fear and wars. Moreover, British government sent many regulars troop to occupy
the lands that France had ceded to intimidate the Indians.
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