Let's discuss who was involved, what they did, why they did it, how it was fought, how it ended and what significance it had, then and now. Let's discuss it all!
The French and Indian war was the colonial extension of the seven years war. The war was started for several reasons. Both the British and the French claimed they owned the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi river, both countries also ignored the Native American in claims to the land in order to pursue their beaver pelt economy, and the British colonists feared a religious influence over the colonies by the French. In 1754 major George Washington was sent to negotiate with the French who did not want to give up their position. Virgininian colonial troops led by washing set out for fort Duquesne to meet with the French. Washington met them at Jumonville Glen and in a fight a French officer was killed. Washington would retreat and set up fort necessity and for the next 9 years the colonists would fight with the British and the Iroquois tribe against the French in the bloodiest American war of the 18th century French. On February 10, 1756 the Treaty of Paris would be signed and the war would be officially over.
Why do you think the Native Americans were so afraid to fight for the territory that was clearly theirs? Was it because of advancements in weaponry that the new settlers had?
Yeh Alex we know that the French and the Americans did want in on the fur trade but didnt the French have good relations with the Natives through trade and in some ways co-existed in some colonies in the North? Also the French didn't do much fighting over the fur because they thought that good relations with the natives would be helpful to them. It was more the American colonies who fought the natives for land and te fur trade itself.
The only time that Washington surrendered and ever would again was at Fort Necessity. As part of the peace treaty, France agreed that it would not build any military establishments in India. That allowed Britain to become the dominant European power in India.
The French and Indian war was basically the French and the Indians against the English colonies. The Indians sided with the french because the French were not destructive to their culture. They were able to trade furs with them without destroying their villages.... French even married Indian women. However, when the english started traveling west, slashing and burning forests and violently killing native americans because of their mere existance, the Indians began fighting back with the French on their side.
The Treaty of Paris resulted in France losing all of it's North American territories east of the Mississippi, except Saint Pierre and Miquelon (two small islands off Newfoundland). The French also got back the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, which were good for their economy because of the rich sugar crops.
Did the French adn Indians actually fight in the French and INdian war? I don't understand.
British soldiers fought against French soldiers and Native Americans. Native Americans joined in the battle against the British because they were afraid the British would take over their land.
The French and Indian War was the nine-year North AMerican chapter of the Seven Years War. The conflict, the fourth "colonial war" between the kingdoms of France and Great Britain, resulted in the British conquest of all of New France, east of the Mississippi River, as well as Spanish Florida. To compensate its ally, Spain, for its loss of Florida, France ceded its control of French Louisiana west of the Mississippi.
Why the French and Indian War? In Britain, wars were often named after the British monarch. Because there had already been a King George's War in the 1740s, British colonists named the second war in King George's reign after their opponents, and therefore, we call it the French and Indian War. clever.
This traditional name remains standard in the US, although it obscures the fact that AMerican Indians fought on both sides of the conflict. The European name for it is the Seven Years War, and have also invented other, less frequently used names for the war, including the Fourth Intercolonial War and the Great War for the Empire.
