1. THE SEVEN YEARS WAR

2. Intro to the
problem
 The French and
the English
began to argue
over who
owned what in
America.
 The French
began building
bases in English
America.

3. British French
Fort Necessity Fort Duquesne
* George Washington * Delaware & Shawnee
Indians
The
Ohio Valley
1754  The First Clash

4. Braddock’s Defeat
 So the English sent General Edward
Braddock commander in chief of the British
forces to America to drive the French out of
the OhioValley
 They marched in columns and rows, and took
time out everyday to sit and have tea
 The French and Native Americans hid behind
trees and fired at the bright uniforms of the
British
 The British lost badly loosing nearly 1,000
soldiers including their Commander in Chief
General Edward Braddock

6. The French and Indian War
 1756:The fighting in America leads to the start of a war in Europe
between the French and English known as the SevenYears War
 The first years of the war went terrible for the British and their
American colonies
 The French captured several British forts including forts at Lake
Ontario and Lake George
 France’s Native American allies began staging raids on frontier
farms from NewYork to what is nowWestVirginia
 They killed settlers, burned farmhouses and crops, and chased
many families back to the coast

7. Fortunes Reverse In 1757, expansion advocate
William Pitt became the British
Prime Minister and vowed to
lead country to victory.
 Pitt concentrated on:
 expelling the French from
NorthAmerica
 buying the cooperation by
the colonists by stimulating
the North American
economy with a massive
infusion of British currency
 buying the support of the
Native Americans with
promises of fixed territorial
boundaries.

8. Fortunes
Reverse
 The greatly fortified force devastated the Cherokee to the
South and began capturing strategic French forts and cutting
off their supply lines.
 The British conquered Quebec in 1759.
 In 1760, they captured Montreal.
 In the final years of the war, the British defeated the French
Navy and took French colonies in the Caribbean.
 The French Empire in North America came to an end.

9.  North
America
1763: