French and Indian War
unified *
diverse industry *
same religion * strong British Navy *
arm-bearing men * loose govt control
paternalistic * authority decentralized
autocratic * anti-royal governors
small population inept generals
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Time Sequence
French and Indian War
1753
French Built Forts (Erie to Ohio R.)
Washington warns French at Ft. Duquesne
1754
Washington established Ft. Necessity
Defeated by French - July 4, 1754
Albany Plan of Union
1755
Braddock - Defeated. at Ft. Duquesne
Shirley - Defeated at Ft. Niagara
Johnson - No decision at Crown Point
French take - Ft. Oswego
- Ft. William Henry
1756
William Pitt - British Sec. of State
1. offered to pay colonial soldiers
2. give colonial officers equal rank
3. replaced inept officers
4. with Amherst & Wolf
1758
Amherst takes Louisburg cutting of French reinforcements
Duquesne taken / renamed Ft. Pitt
Amherst takes
Crown Pt.
Ticonderoga
Niagara
1759
Wolfe takes Quebec Plains of Abraham
Killed (French) Montcalm / (British) Wolfe
1760
Montreal surrenders to Amherst
1762
Spain enter war with France
1763 Treaty of Paris 1763
England received-
1. India
2. N. America East of Mississippi
Spain lost Florida
France gave Spain New Orleans
