The French and Indian WarStuff Happened · War
War · 1754–1763
The French &
Indian War
Nine years in the North American woods decided who would rule the continent — Britain or France — and the contest turned, more than anything, on the Native nations whose land it was. The British victory ejected France, and its costs and broken promises lit the fuse to the Revolution.
The Death of General Wolfe · Benjamin West, 1770 · public domain
The war storySoon
Five phases, 1754 to 1763
The whole war as one through-line: the spark in the Ohio woods, the years Britain reeled, the turn under Pitt, the conquest of Canada, and the peace that set up the Revolution. The connective tissue between the causes and the battles.