MYRA SADEQUE & CHLOE KIM
The war began on 1754 and ended on 1763.
The war was fought primarily along the frontiers
between the British colonies from Virginia to Nova
Scotia.
Victors side:
-Prussia
-Great Britain
Monarchy
-Hanover Iroquois Confederacy
-Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
-Portugal
-Hesse-Kassel
-Schaumburg-Lippe
Opposition Side
-France
-Habsburg
-Russian Empire
-Spain
-Sweden
-Saxony
The war was about the British and the French in a big
disagreement over who owned the Ohio River Valley
area.
-Virginia Militia was sent to order the French to leave.
-Led by George Washington (22),established Fort
Necessity.
-GW and men attacked small group of French soldiers,
Natives with GW killed a French officer.
-French countered attacking Fort Necessity.
-British outnumbered, high losses, French were forced to
surrender.
-The Treaty of 1763.
-It terminated the seven years war.
-It was signed by Spain, Great Britain, and France.
-The British began taxing the colonists to pay for the
war.
- Britain had borrowed a lot of money during the war
that it nearly doubled their debt.
- King George the third chose George Greenville a
financial expert to serve as a prime minister in 1763.
- Get shot
- Turn into child soldiers
- Lose families
- Get hurt
- Die
- Smoke/Drug
- Uneducated
- Poor
- Terrifying nightmares
-Bad memories
-Slaves
-After the war people were inspired to play “Yankee
Doodle”
-American Indians fought on both sides because they
didn’t know who would win and take over the land
they lived on
-The 7 years war actually lasted 9 years
- http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-
war
- http://www.surfnetkids.com/go/1782/ten-fun-factsfrench-indian-war/
- Struggle For A Continent