The French & Indian War with Dan Snow

American History Hit

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America, History

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As the British and French colonies in North America expanded in the middle of the 18th century, they inevitably clashed. Fighting between the two sides and their respective Native American allies began in Ohio Country (now western Pennsylvania) in 1754. Dan Snow tells Don how fighting began in 1754 in Ohio country (now western Pennsylvania) and spread, over almost a decade, across disputed territory in the Great Lakes region and into New France (modern-day Canada). As a result of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the war, France's presence in North America was all but ended. They were left only with the small islands of St Pierre and Miquelon, off Newfoundland.

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0:00.0	It's May 28th, 1754.
0:04.0	Friction between the French and British colonies in North America has been building,
0:08.0	as both seek to expand their territory in the resource-rich Ohio country, what is today Western Pennsylvania.
0:15.2	The French have initiated construction on several forts in the region, upsetting ties with
0:19.3	Native American tribes as well as the British.
0:22.4	21-year-old lieutenant colonel George Washington is ordered to the area from Virginia,
0:27.0	leading a regiment of British colonial soldiers through the dense forests of the frontier
0:32.0	to protect a fort the British are now building on French claimed land.
0:35.6	Aware of Washington's approach, the French dispatch a small force of 35 troops to head him off.
0:41.4	When Washington learns of their movements, he sends a
0:44.0	detachment to ambush the French. Killing 10 or more soldiers including their
0:49.4	commander and capturing more. This brief but fateful battle, George Washington's first experience fighting in the field,
0:57.0	leads inevitably to a French retaliation and becomes the opening salvo of what eventually is known as the French and Indian War. Hey everybody I'm Don Wileben. Welcome to American History Hit.
1:17.0	The French and Indian War has to be one of the least considered and least understood conflicts that ever happened on American soil.
1:24.0	Even the title is confusing because it leaves out the English who were the instigators of the whole thing.
1:29.0	But this lack of awareness is something to rectify,
1:32.0	since this war was more than meets the eye for the average
1:34.9	American.
1:35.9	It was a regional skirmish in the woods of Western Pennsylvania back in 1754 that soon blew
1:42.1	up into a European war, the seven years war, and its resolution
1:46.5	laid the groundwork for so much of the American tale, not to mention Canadian.
1:50.8	The French and Indian War is fundamental to
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