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In 1754 Washington's surprise attack upon a small French force at Jumonville Glen and his subsequent surrender to French forces at the Battle of Fort Necessity helped to spark the French and Indian War, which was part of the imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.
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Born in 1705. Entered army in 1727. Commissioned major general in 1755, and appointed the following year as commander-in-chief of British forces in America during the French and Indian War, and named titular governor of Virginia.
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Braddock's forces, nearing their target of Fort Duquesne, are surprised and routed by a much smaller force of French and their allied Native Americans. -
To increase his speed, Braddock made the fatal mistake of splitting up his troops. As Braddock and the first of his troops approached Fort Duquesne, the French and allied Indians attacked. Braddock and more than half of the 1,200 British men with him died.
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Although the fighting in America had been ongoing since 1754, Great Britain formally declared war on France in 1756. This marked the beginning of what would become known in Europe as the Seven Years' War.
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Late in 1758, while in Williamsburg, Virginia, George Washington resigned his commission in the Virginia Regiment.
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As British forces under General John Forbes advance from their base at Fort Ligonier, the French blew up and abandoned Fort Duquesne.
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British Army officer known for his training reforms and remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec as a major general.
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After years of fighting, the 1763 Treaty of Paris officially ended hostilities between France and Great Britain. The treaty ceded France's lands in Upper Canada and Louisiana east of the Mississippi to Great Britain, and it's holdings west of the Mississippi River to Spain.
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William Pitt is known as one of the greatest wartime leaders in British history. He served as secretary of state in the British government during the French and Indian War.
