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Facts

Also Known As Great War for the Empire
Date 1754 - 1763
Location North America
Participants Cherokee • France • United Kingdom
Context Seven Years’ War

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Edward Braddock marching on Fort Duquesne
British and French dominions in North America, 1755
European exploration: early voyages
La Salle's exploration of North America
Map showing English colonies along the eastern coast of North America in 1689
New France
George Washington: sketch map
Braddock, Edward
Lake George: French and Indian War
William Pitt, the Elder
How The Death of General Wolfe mythologized North America
Revisit the battle between Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon's and James Wolfe's forces along the St. Lawrence
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George Washington as a colonel in the Virginia colonial militia
Battle of Jumonville Glen
May 28, 1754
French and Indian War
Battle of Fort Necessity
July 3, 1754
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Battle of the Monongahela
July 9, 1755
The Execution of Admiral Byng
Battle of Minorca
May 20, 1756
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Battle of Carillon
July 8, 1758
Battle of Quebec
Battle of Quebec
September 13, 1759
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Treaty of Paris
February 10, 1763

Key People

George Washington
George Washington
president of United States
Death of the marquis de Montcalm
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, marquis de Montcalm
French general
Wolfe, James
James Wolfe
British general
Joseph Brant
Joseph Brant
Mohawk chief
Rogers, Robert
Robert Rogers
American soldier
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Roland-Michel Barrin, marquis de La Galissonnière
commandant-general of New France
Edward Braddock
Edward Braddock
British commander
John Byng, detail of an oil painting by T. Hudson; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
John Byng
British admiral
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Robert Dinwiddie
British colonial administrator
Thomas Gainsborough: portrait of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
British army commander
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Christopher Gist
American colonial explorer
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James Abercrombie
British general
George Clinton
George Clinton
vice president of United States
James Murray, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist
James Murray
British soldier and official
Shirley, William
William Shirley
British colonial governor

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