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Goerge Washington carries Virginia's ultimatum over French encroachment to Captain Legardeur de Saint-Pierre at Rivere aux Boeufs. He rejects it.
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Washington defeats the French in a suprise attack. His troops retreat to Great Meadows and built Fort Necessity.
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Blamed for Fort Necesity, Washington resigns. He will later return under British authority.
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British general Braddock's forces are defeated near Fort Duquesne in Pennsylvania, leaving the backwoods of British terrioty undefended.
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British colonial William Johnson forces win, making Johnson the first British hero of the war
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Great Britian declares war in France. France declares war on Great Britian.
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The comander and cheif of the French forces, Louis Joseph de Mantcalm takes Fort William Henry. The infamous massacre occurs, later dramatized in James Fenmore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.
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The British seize Louisbourg, opening the route to Canada.
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The French surrender this fort on Lake Ontario, effectively distroying their ability to communicate thier troops in the Ohio Valley.
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It is renamed Pittsburg.
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The British take Fort Niagara; the French abandone Crown Point. After these two vistories, the Britsh control the entire western frontier.
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The British win the decisive battle of Quebec. Montcalm and Wolfe, the commanding generals of both armies parish in battle.
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Montreal falls to the British; letters are signed finishing the surrender of Canada.
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All French possessions cast of the Mississippi, except for New Orleanes, are given to the British. All French possessions west of the Mississippi are given to the Spanish. France regains martinique Guadeloupe in St. Lucia.
