War With France

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War With France

• War for Empire
• French and Indian War 1754-1763
• Seven (7) Years War 1756-1763

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French Advantages in the French and Indian War

• Centralized Control
• smaller unit and number of people
• strategically Placed Forts
• around the Great Lakes and Mountain passages.
• Best Army in European Continent.

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Advantages Continued

• Indian Alliances (Algonkin)
• Du Bois-Familiar with Forrests and trails fording
  points and mountain passages.
• British Advantages
• Numerical Superiority
• Indian alliance (Iraquois)
• Financial Superiority
• British Navy

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Beginnings of the War

• 1754 Virginia to Survey territory granted in
  original Charter.
• George Washington sent to present day
  Pennsylvania to claim land for Virginia.
• Fort Duquesne
• Lt. Governor Robert Dinwiddie
• Lt. Col. George Washington

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Robert Dinwiddie (1693-1770)
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FRENCH AND INDIAN WARCONTINUED

• Washington Attacked small French force on the way
  to fort Duquesne at the Juncture of the Allegheny
  and Monongahela Rivers joint to form the Ohio
  River.
• Built Fort Necessity
• Was defeated by a superior French force.

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Col. George Washington on his mission to Ohio May
1754
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The surrender of Ft. Necessity
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Fort Duquesne, at present-day Pittsburgh
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Years of Defeat1754-1757

• General Edward Braddock (1696-1755)
  Commander-in-Chief of British forces in America.
  Mortally in battle of the Wilderness.
• Years of Victory (1758-1760)
• William Pitt Prime minister of England.

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Edward Braddock (1695-1755)
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Years of Victory continued

• Committed England to unlimited Warfare.
• Promoted Jeffrey Amherst, James Wolfe, and John
  Forbes
• Battle of Quebec 1759 Plains of Abraham outside
  of Quebec Gen. Wolfe and Gen. Montcalm fought a
  royal battle.

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Pontiac Uprising

• 1763 Ottawa Chief Pontiac led an uprising.
• Proclamation Line 1763.

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Treaty of Paris 1763

• Treaty of Paris 10 Feb. 1763
• What the British Kept
• all of Canada,Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island,
  right of navigate the Mississippi
• In the Caribbean Sea
• Islands of Granada, Dominica, Tobago, and the
  Floridas.

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TREATY OF PARIS CONTINUED

• What the French Kept In Canada
• Fishing rights off the coast of Newfoundland.
• Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.
• In the Caribbean the Islands of Guadeloupe,
  Martinique, Bella Isle and St. Lucia.

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Land Conflict and the Western Uprising

• Paxton Boys
• Moderators
• Regulators

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