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The
French and Indian Wars is a name used in the
United States for a series of conflicts in
North America that represented the actions there that accompanied the European dynastic wars. In
Quebec, the wars are generally referred to as the
Intercolonial Wars. While some conflicts involved
Spanish and
Dutch forces, all pitted
Great Britain, its
colonies and
Indian allies on one side and
France, its colonies and Indian allies on the other. As such, the American conflicts were also part of the persistent Anglo-French
Second Hundred Years' War, which was fought intermittently between 1688 and 1815.
The expanding French and British colonies were contending for control of the western, or interior, territories. Whenever the European countries went to war, there were actions within and by these colonies although the dates of the conflict didn't necessarily exactly coincide with those of the larger conflicts.
The North American wars, and their associated
European wars, in sequence, are:
The naming of conflicts after the British monarch of the day isn't used by
Canadians, who merely employ the name of the larger European conflict (for example the
War of the Grand Alliance rather than
King William's War) or refer to them as the Intercolonial Wars.
As the wars proceeded the military advantage moved inexorably towards the British side. This was largely a reflection of the greater population and productive capacity of the British colonies compared with those of France. The French were able to largely offset this in the first three conflicts by more effective
mobilization of Native American allies, but were finally overwhelmed in the fourth war.
Ironically, the overwhelming victory of the British played a role in eventual loss of their American colonies. Without the threat of French invasion, the American colonies saw little need for British military protection and resented British limits on the colonization of the new French territories as stated in the
Proclamation of 1763. These pressures contributed to the
American Revolutionary War.
The first three of the French and Indian Wars follow the same basic pattern. That is that they all started in Europe and then moved to America. Once the fighting begins in America it's mostly fought by militia men. The final conflict broke this pattern by beginning in North America. Larger numbers of British regular troops were used alongside the militia and almost all French territory seized by the British wasn't returned. The British victory in the French and Indian Wars ended France's American empire, leaving France with only an island fishing colony off Canada and a few Caribbean islands.
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