 The
British and French both wanted the
same land in the Ohio Valley
 The British wanted to claim and settle the
land while the French wanted to claim it to
obtain natural resources
 The French used their American colonies
mainly as trading posts while the British
wanted to settle
 Since it was the British who were mainly
kicking the Indians off their land, most
Indian tribes sided with the French
 The
Battle took place on July 3, 1754 in
what is now the mountaintop hamlet of
Farmington, Pennsylvania
 The engagement was one of the first
battles of the French and Indian War and
George Washington's only military
surrender.
 Poor shooting and wet gunpowder led to
Washington’s defeat
 The
British under General James Wolfe,
achieved a dramatic victory when they
scaled the cliffs over the city of Quebec to
defeat French forces under Louis-Joseph de
Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham (an area
named for the farmer who owned the land).
 During the battle, which lasted less than an
hour, Wolfe was fatally wounded. Montcalm
also was wounded and died the next day.
 By 1760 the French were all but kicked out
of Canada
 In
the Treaty of Paris, France lost all claims
to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain,
while Britain received Spanish Florida,
Upper Canada and various French
holdings overseas.
 15 years later, French bitterness over the
loss of most of their colonial empire led
them to siding with the Patriots in the
Revolutionary War.