Before he led a revolution, George Washington sparked one. This video explores how a young officer’s ambush in the Ohio Valley helped ignite a global conflict—the Seven Years' War. Known in North ...

U.S. Military Academy history professor Robert McDonald discussed the American colonists beliefs and role in the French and Indian War. He spoke about the territorial expansion and missteps by the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! David Narret lectures on the events leading up to the French and Indian War. American History professor David Narrett lectures about the events ...

Learn the history of the French and Indian War! With British and French colonists, and the Native Americans all living on the same continent, a conflict was only inevitable. The French and Indian ...

Fought between 1754 and 1763, the misleadingly named Seven Years' War (often called the French and Indian War in North ... Paris to sign a peace treaty. Few documents have shaken up global ...

This was the beginning of the French and Indian War (also known, much less poetically, as the Seven Years’ War), which I thought as a boy was the most interesting war in all of history.

The French and Indian War is one of those conflicts we learned ... This trove of colonial documents included official correspondences, maps, legal and military records, and Indian treaties.

The French and Indian War may be a mystery to many New Yorkers. It predated the American Revolution by two decades, pitting French and English colonists and their Native American allies against ...

The French and Indian War was fought between France and Britain, along with each empire’s Indigenous allies, over control of the Americas. Sparked accidentally in 1754 by a 22-year-old unknown ...

While the historical sites associated with the Revolutionary War and the Civil War are very well known, there are other historical military sites that are often forgotten. The French and Indian ...

but they were primarily allied with the French. The American Indians were the original inhabitants of the Ohio River Valley; at the time of the war, 3,000 to 4,000 indigenous people lived there.