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Europe and India. The Seven Years War (1. Roman Empire in 4. A. D. One of the world's more complicated wars.. The period 2. 00.

Seven Years War, a. French and Indian War. Timeline Begins Here. The Seven Years War is the first world war. Europe and India. Africa and North America.

This timeline focuses mainly on events in North America. In Canada, the designation French and Indian War is nearly unknown. English Canadians typically refer to the war as the Seven Years War, while. French Canadians call it the Guerre de la conquete (War of the Conquest). New France was conquered by the British and. North American portion of the British Empire. Seven Years' War Canadian Encyclopedia.

The French Colonizationof North America. The European colonization of North America was made from three. Spanish from the South, French from the St. Lawrence Valley. and English from the Atlantic Coast.

By right of the discoveries of Jean Verrazano (1. Jacques. Cartier (1. French crown laid claim to all America.

Spanish influence.  Colonial enterprise. Europe in the sixteenth century; and it was not until after the. Edict of Nantes in 1. France could follow up the discoveries.

Acadia or Canada.. The Acadian Exiles: a Chronicle.. Sir Arthur G. Doughty, 1. Project Gutenberg.

In 1. 60. 3 the first systematic effort to found French colonies in America. England in America, 1. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 1. Project Gutenberg. The French, who settled the St. Lawrence Valley (Quebec City, 1. Montreal, 1. 64. 2), explored the continent looking for furs.  In 1.

Samuel de Champlain and. Etienne Brule reached the Great Lakes (Ontario). In 1. 62. 1, Etienne Brule was in Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario). In 1.

Jean Nicolet reached Lake Michigan (Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin). Medard Chouart Desgroseillers and.

Pierre- Esprit Radissonexplored Lake Superior and the upper reach of the Mississippi River (Illinois). In 1. 66. 9- 7. 0, Robert Cavelier de La Salle explored Ohio and Illinois. Louis Jolliet and.

Father Jacques Marquette discovered the Mississippi. River.  In 1. 66. D'Iberville arrived at the mouth of the Mississippi, later known. New Orleans (Louisiana).  In 1. Pierre Gauthier, Sieur de La Verendrye. West.  He visited the Rocky Mountains in 1.

Despite the many fur traders already living in the area, sometimes like natives. Detroit. (Michigan) and Mobile (Alabama).  Many more were built, for example in 1. Michillimakinac (Michigan) or in 1. New Orleans (Louisiana).

Genealogy of French forts of the West by Franco. Gene. In Canada, there was nothing but a constant struggle against nature, still. The history of the French colonists in Canada showed. French annals; the ardor of the. French nature and the suavity of French manners seemed to be combined. French marched in the first. Anglo- Saxons, down to the day when, cooped up.

Canadians defended foot to foot the honor of their mother country, which. As early as 1. 50. St. Lawrence was drawn by John- Denis, who. Honfleur in Normandy.  Before long the fishers began to approach.

Before long the native people of America became acquainted. La Salle, in his intrepid expeditions (from 1. European exploration of – Ohio and Illinois, navigated. Great Lakes, crossed the Mississippi.. Texas. Constructing forts in the midst of the Indian districts, taking possession of. Louisiana in the name of King Louis XIV..

Chapter LIII (5. 3): Louis XV, France in the Colonies, 1. A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times, Volume VI  c.

Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot. Project Gutenburg. The French went to Louisbourg in 1. Acadia and Newfoundland to the British through the Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession.  It wasn't long before the settlement became a thriving community, mostly based on the salt cod trade, so much so that by 1.

France had begun building fortifications to protect its interests.  The colony of Louisbourg in what is now Nova Scotia became a hub of commerce, trading in manufactured goods and provisions imported from France, Quebec, the West Indies and New England.  Life was good, for a while, anyway. National Post, 3. December 2. 00. 8. Map: United States Exploration before 1. University of Texas. The White- De Bry Map of Virginia U.

S. National Park Service. A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on the Continent of North America, containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina University of Georgia. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto University of Georgia. The Zenith Of The French Empire In North America Canadian Military Heritage. Timeline of Quebec history (1.

Wikipedia. Brief Overview: The Scene at the Beginning. France and England have been enemiesfor most of the last 9. In the mid- 1. 70. Virginia was the most important of England's colonies in North America.  It was old – with roots going back to the age of Queen Elizabeth and.

Sir Walter Raleigh – and wealthy, and had the largest population.  Events in Virginia carried more weight in England than those of any other colony in North America. Virginia Environment (Virginia's Early History) by the William L.

Clements Library, University of Michigan. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Philip A. Bruce, 1. 89. 6. Dinsmore Documentation Project. In 1. 74. 7, several wealthy Virginians established the Ohio Company.  One of the earliest investors was George Washington. Robert Dinwiddie.  The shareholders were mostly residents of the colony of Virginia [now the states of Virginia and West Virginia].  They were interested in making money in land speculation and the fur trade.  They hoped to buy land west of the Appalachian Mountains from England and then sell it to settlers at a profit. In 1. 74. 8 the English government granted to the Ohio Company 2. Ohio River [generally in the vicinity of what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania].  In return, the company was to distribute the property among 1.

British claim to the area. Watch Lost Lake Streaming. The activities of British explorers, trappers and traders in these western lands quickly became known to the French, who had been active in this area for more than a hundred years and had no interest in sharing the region with anyone, and not Englishmen (a term that then included people who lived in the thirteen British colonies along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to North Carolina, including Virginia).  They responded by constructing a string of forts in the contested area [now western Pennsylvania and Ohio] to assert sovreignty and to exclude Englishmen.

The Ohio Country (sometimes called the Ohio Territory) was the name used in the 1. North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and in the region of the upper Ohio River south of Lake Erie – roughly corresponding to the present- day states of Ohio, eastern Indiana, western Pennsylvania, and northwestern West Virginia.

The effort to control the Ohio Country was the most direct cause of the French and Indian War. The French, who had long claimed the Ohio Country as their territory, felt threatened by the Ohio Company's venture.  In 1. French soldiers entered the disputed area and began work to build and improve several forts, including Fort Le Boeuf (1. Fort de Chartres (1. Fort Machault (1.

France, between Canada (Quebec) and Louisiana. Robert Dinwiddie, Virginia's lieutenant governor, upon hearing of France's actions, immediately sent George Washington and Christopher Gist to Fort Le Boeuf to persuade the French to leave.  The French commander refused and told the Englishmen that the French would arrest any English (that is, non- French European) settlers or merchants entering the Ohio Country.

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