The French-Indian War

The French-Indian War entered the history as the fourth and the last armed conflict in colonial North America between Britain and her colonies. The conflict broke out because the British and French claims to territory in the valley of the Ohio, which at that time inhabited 3,000 to 4,000 Indian Americanx (Gard, pp 35 - 36). Beginning on the eve of the Seven Years' War and to a large extent by provoking it, the French and Indian War ended with its defeat of the France. French-Indian war paved the geographics of the Great Britain and France along with many other European countries. The paper discusses about the reasons for the outbreak of war, the development of war and the consequences it brought. There were several reasons for the war, which are discusses in the upcoming paragraphs.

At one end was France and the Union of its Indian tribes, on the other hand, is a special theater of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763 years) (Fowler, pp 46). This war ended a series of colonial wars between England and France, which is sometimes called the second Hundred Years' War (Borneman, pp 229). As a result, France has lost all its colonial possessions in America, called New France. In addition, Great Britain took possession of Florida, before the union of France belonged to Spain. The French territory east of the Mississippi, moved to England, and French Louisiana west of the Mississippi was transferred to Spain in order to compensate for the loss of Florida (Hannings, pp 298 - 299).

In the early eighteenth century the population of the British North American colonies did not exceed 250,000, which is a very small number when compared to the 8 million people in Spanish South America. However along the first half of this century the population increased rapidly thanks to the massive influx of European (especially Scottish) and African slaves (estimated more than 250,000 slaves arrived in those years). This prompted the British colonies, which had hitherto been confined to the coastal strip, necesitasen expand. It created the colony of Georgia to the south, border with Spanish Florida (Gard, pp 58). The French had also been installed in North America although their domains there were not quite consolidated because they were too large for a population of about 70,000 (Fowler, pp 49). Despite this, managed to expand to occupy the entire Quebec, the Great Lakes and reached Louisiana, creating a barrier preventing British expansion northward and westward. All this territory was controlled through a lot of strong scattered in the border areas with few cities (Hannings, pp 300 - 303). Both colonial empires, therefore, collided in the vast region that stretched from the Appalachians to theMississippi River and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. The area of greatest conflict was known as the territory of Ohio or Ohio Valley, a region south of the Great Lakes which included much of the present states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. This territory was gradually occupied ...