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The French and Indian War

French and Indian War
Part of the Seven Years' War
French and indian war map.svg
The war theatre
Date 1754–1763
Location North America
Result

British victory

Territorial
changes
France cedes New France east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain, retaining Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and transfers Louisiana to Spain
Belligerents

 Great Britain

Iroquois Confederacy

Catawba
Cherokee (before 1758)

 France

Wabanaki Confederacy

Algonquin
Lenape
Ojibwa
Ottawa
Shawnee
Wyandot
Commanders and leaders
Jeffery Amherst
Edward Braddock 
James Wolfe 
Earl of Loudoun
James Abercrombie
Edward Boscawen
George Washington
John Forbes
George Monro
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm 
Marquis de Vaudreuil
Baron Dieskau (POW)
François-Marie de Lignery 
Chevalier de Lévis (POW)
Joseph de Jumonville 
Marquis Duquesne
Daniel Lienard de Beaujeu  
Strength
42,000 regulars and militia (peak strength, 1758) 10,000 regulars (troupes de la terre and troupes de la marine, peak strength, 1757)

British victory

 Great Britain

Iroquois Confederacy

 France

Wabanaki Confederacy

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1754–1763. The war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as by Native American allies. At the start of the war, the French North American colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 European settlers, compared with 2 million in the British North American colonies. The outnumbered French particularly depended on the Indians. Following months of localised conflict, the metropole nations declared war on each other in 1756, escalating the war from a regional affair into an intercontinental conflict.


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