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France and Britain were two of the strongest powers in Europe. They competed for wealth, and empire in diffrent part of the world. The rivarly caused bitter feelings for Britain and Frence colonist in North Amrica.
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The confedrcy intially included five nations. Mohaw, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondage, and Onedia. Other groups of the native americans later joined.
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Hostility between the two froces grew. British fur traders buit a fort at a place called Pickawillany. French attacted Pickawillany and drove the British out of Ohio.
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The Iroguois came under greater pressure as the british move int othe Ohio Vally.
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Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virgina sent a surveyor named Gerorge Washington into the Ohio contry. Washington was 21 years old. His mission was to tell the french the they were truspassing on land that Great briten clamed
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Dinwiddie mad Washington a lieutent colonel. He sent Washington back to Ohio with a milta. They needed to make a frot where the Allegheny and Mononogahele rivers meet.
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They wanted to defend them selves for war aginst the Fench. They also wanted the Iroquois to defend the British
