Changes

Jump to: navigation, search

What caused the French and Indian War

22 bytes added, 19:26, 7 December 2020
no edit summary
Other political leaders wanted a bigger war, and so they publicly announced Newcastle’s plans and changed the original plan so that Braddock would command more forces and order the fractious North American colonies to provide additional support against the French. Once the plans had been publicly announced, the French government moved quickly to dispatch reinforcements to North America and further pursued negotiations to diplomatically isolate the British government by winning over its traditional European allies. Once military forces were underway, the war was inevitable.
====The British Deported French Colonists from Acadia- The Great Upheaval ====
By 1755, the uneasy truce between the British ruling authorities and the French colonists living in Acadia was [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-deportation-of-the-acadians-feature#:~:text=Between%201755%20and%201763%2C%20approximately,in%20France%20or%20the%20Caribbean.&text=Back%20in%20Nova%20Scotia%2C%20the,by%20settlers%20from%20New%20England.| shattered]. The French colonists began moving to Acadia (modern-day Nova Scotia) in 1604, and it remained in French hands until the signing of The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. The treaty handed Acadia over to Great Britain. Despite the shift, the French colonists remained in Acadia. Despite handing over Acadia to the British, starting the 1830s, tensions between France and Britain begin to rise slowly. Both France and Britain begin building forts in the regions surrounding Acadia.

Navigation menu