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Article: French and Indian War
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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.
This was the last in a series of conflicts between Great Britain and France for dominance in North America. The French and Indian War (1754
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1763), sometimes referred to as the Great War for Empire, and part of the global conflict called the Seven Years' War (1756
–
1763) in Europe, resulted in a British victory and the end of the French empire in North America.
In the seventeenth century, the French had explored and claimed a vast amount of land in the interior of North America, ranging from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes in the north to the Mississippi River and New Orleans in the south. In order to ...