causesThe French and Indian War became the result of ongoing tensions in North America where both French and British Imperial officials and colonists wanted to extend each country`s influence in frontier regions. In North America, the war set at odds France, French colonists, and their Native American allies against Great Britain, the Anglo-American colonists, and the Iroquois Confederacy, who controlled most of upstate New York and parts of northern Pennsylvania. In 1753, just before the outbreak of hostilities, Great Britain had control of the 13 colonies up to the Appalachian Mountains, but beyond was New France, a large, sparsely settled colony that stretched from Louisiana through the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes to Canada
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LocationNorth America
The final Colonial War (1689-1763) was the French and Indian War, which is the name given to the American theater of a massive conflict involving Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden called the Seven Years War. |