Desert Island, now part of Acadia National Park. In 1613, Virginia colonists sailed north from Jamestown to destroy a French settlement on Mt.
The French established complex trade deals with different Native American groups, but from the beginning the English and French chose to fight rather than trade with each other. Lawrence River downstream from Quebec, which Samuel de Champlain started in 1608. French ships traded for beaver and other skins at Tadoussac on the St. Starting in the 1500's, the French had relied upon various Native American groups living within the interior of New France to hunt and process deer skins and furs, then exchange them with other tribes further east. The war was one of a continuing chain of English-French conflicts in North America, stretching back to the earliest settlements by the European rivals. Lawrence River, and from the English settlements on the Fall Line. Competition for their trade and support created conflicts that extended far from the cities of Montreal and Quebec along the St. Native Americans chose to ally with either England or France. The "Indian" part of the name is key to understanding the conflict. The French and Indian War was fought in North America between 1755-63 by French and British forces (including colonial militia). England, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Sweden fought each other overseas in North America and he Caribbean, without formally declaring war and risking invasion of the homelands in Europe. This competition affected Virginia, as well as islands in the Caribbean and India.
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Source: Library of Congress, "Robertson's geographic-historical series illustrating the history of America and the United States: from 1492 to the present time," English, French and Spanish Possessionsįrance and Britain were international rivals seeking wealth and power. The French and Indian War The French and Indian WarĪt the start of the French and Indian War, the French claimed the center of the North American continent and sought to contain the English east of the Alleghenies
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