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French and Indian War
noun
- the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763.
French and Indian War
noun
- the war (1755–60) between the French and British, each aided by different Indian tribes, that formed part of the North American Seven Years' War
French and Indian War
- A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years' War , which was then underway in Europe . In a battle between British and French forces near Quebec City in Canada , the British gained control of all of Canada.
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During the French and Indian War, he had botched one mission, witnessed a bloody massacre of British troops, and then been sidelined as the conflict moved away from Virginia.
"Cajuns" and Cajun food came well after Britain won the French and Indian War in 1763.
Men in 18th-century outfits — buckled shoes, fancy hats, rifles — greeted us as we entered the low stone walls of Fort Frederick, built in 1756 to protect Maryland’s frontier during the French and Indian War.
He was entrusted with commands by the British army during the French and Indian War when he was just 22 years old.
Surviving smallpox, he became a death-defying leader of ungovernable Virginia troops during the French and Indian War, annoyed in being denied a British army commission.
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