The document discusses the Seven Years War between the French and English in North America from 1754-1763. It describes how the conflict began over territorial disputes in the Ohio Valley and General Braddock's defeat against the French and Native Americans in 1755. Though the early years of the war went poorly for the British, new Prime Minister William Pitt strengthened Britain's efforts starting in 1757. The British went on to capture key French forts and cities like Quebec and Montreal, defeating the French navy and taking Caribbean colonies to end France's empire in North America by 1763.

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: