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Jumonville Skirmish
Fought near present-day Fayette County PA. Colonel George Washington and a small number of Mingo warriors lead by Tanacharison ambushed 35 Canadians under command of Joseph Coulon De Villiers de Jumonville. Canadian forces were sent to protect a fort that was under construction. A construction crew working on the fort alerted Jumonville of Washingtons presence.Washington, Tanacharison, and the Mingos surrounded and imprisoned most of the Canadians. Others died in the battle along with Jumonville -
Battle of Ft. Necessity
Took place on a mountain top in Farmington PA. This was George Washingtons only military surrender. The French attacked as the Virginias were digging trenches for the fort. Coulton miscalculated the location of the fort therefore, he redeployed giving Washington time for an attack. The French moved into the woods and Washington launched an assault in an open field. The Virginians fell back leaving them outnumbered. Washington retreated. Washingtons gun powder got wet. Could not fight, no powder -
Battle of Monongahela
Fought near Braddock PA. General Edward Braddock was moving his forces to take Fort Duquesne. He was defeated by both French and Canadian troops under command of Captain Daniel Lienard de Beaujeu. Braddock and the British hoped to gain control of the fort becuase it was strategicly placed in Ohio. Braddock was injured and killed during the retreat. -
Fort Oswego Captured
Occurred in Oswego New York. Canadian Militia under General Montcalm captured and occupied Fort Oswego. The French tried to defend the fort in renches and the fort immediately was overwhelmed by the Canadians. 1,700 prisoners and 121 cannons were taken by the Canadian forces. -
Fortress Louisbourg Captured
The loss of Louisbourg lead directly to the loss of Quebec in 1759. The British government realized that with the Fortress of Louisbourg under French control, there was no way that the Royal Navy could sail up the St. Lawrence River for an attack on Quebec. -
Fort William Henry Captured
The fort, located at the southern end of Lake George, on the frontier between the British Province of New York and the French Province of Canada, by a week British force led by Lieutenant Colonel George Monro. Monro surrendered to Montcalm, whose force included nearly 2,000 Indians from a large number of tribes. The terms of surrender included the withdrawal of Fort Edward, with specific terms that the French military protect the British from the Indians as they withdrew from the area. -
Fort Frontenac Captued
British Lieutenant Colonel John Bradstreet led an army of over 3,000 men, of whom about 150 were regulars and the remainder were provincial militia. The army found the 110 people inside the fort and won their surrender two days later, cutting one of the two major communication and supply lines between of Montreal and Quebec City and France's western territories. The location of the battle was Fort Frontenac, a French fort and trading post located at the site of present-day Kingston, Ontario. -
Fort Duquesne Captured
The attack on Fort Duquesne was part of a large-scale British expedition with 6,000 troops led by General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country (the upper Ohio River Valley) and clear the way for an invasion of Canada. Forbes ordered Major James Grant of the 1st Highland Regiment to reconnoiter the area with 850 men. When Grant went to attack the French, his force was destroyed by the French and their native allies led by François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery. -
Treaty of Easton
The Treaty of Easton was a colonial agreement in North America signed in October 1758 during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) between British colonials and the chiefs of 13 Native American nations, representing tribes of the Iroquois, Lenape (Delaware), and Shawnee. Negotiations over more than a week were concluded on October 26, 1758 -
General Forbes Campain
Born in Scottland he was the son of an army officer and was commistioned as a leutenannt in 1735. British general in the French and Indian War. He is best known for leading the Forbes Expedition that captured the French outpost at Fort Duquesne and for naming the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after British Secretary of State William Pitt the Elder. -
Fort Niagara Captured
Was a siege late in the French and Indian War, The British siege of Fort Niagara was part of a campaign to remove French control of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley regions, making possible a western invasion of the French province of Canada with General James Wolfe's invasion to the east. -
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
On July 26 and 27, 1759, during the French and Indian War. A British military force of more than 11,000 men under the command of General Sir Jeffery Amherst moved artillery to high ground overlooking the fort, which was defended by a garrison of 400 Frenchmen under the command of Brigadier General François-Charles de Bourlamaque. Brigadier General François-Charles de Bourlamaque under instruction from General Monetcalm, they retreated his forces and attempted to blow the fort up. -
Montreal
After the fall of Québec in September 1759, Montreal* was the sole remaining French power center in Canada. -
Battle of Quebec
The British under General James achieved a dramatic victory when they scaled the cliffs over the city of Quebec to defeat French forces under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham. During the battle, which lasted less than an hour, Wolfe was fatally wounded. Montcalm also was wounded and died the next day. -
General Montcalm and Quebec
He was a French Soldier. Born near Nimes France and entered the military early in life. He died in battle when he was hit by a musket shot. He was involved in the Battle fo Fort Oswego, Battle of Ford William Henry, and Battle of Carillon. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. -
Pontiac's War
Pontiac's war was launched in 1763 by a group of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were afilliated with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754–1763). Warriors from numerous tribes joined the uprising in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the region. -
Battle of Bushy Run
Fight between a British force under the command of Colonel Henry Bouquet and a combined force of Delaware, Shawnee, Mingo, and Huron warriors. This action occurred during Pontiac's Rebellion. Though the British suffered serious losses, they successfully relieved the garrison of Fort Pitt. -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
