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Washington defeats the French in a surprise attack, Washingtons troops retreat to Great Meadows and build Fort Necessity.
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Washington resigns, Washington later returned as a volunteer under British authority.
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British General Braddock's forces are defeated near the Fort Duquesne in Pennsylvania, leaving the backwoods of British territory undefended
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British Colonel William Johnson's forces win, making Johnson the first British hero of the war
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Great Britain declares war on France,France had declares war on Great Britain
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The French forces, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm takes Fort William Henry. The infamous massacre occurs, later dramatized in James Fenimore 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 had surrendered their fort on Lake Ontario, it effectively destroyed their ability to communicate with their troops in the Ohio Valley
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The British made peace with the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Delaware Indian
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The British took over Fort Niagara, the French abandon Crown Point. After these two victories, the British control the entire western frontier
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The British had won the decisive Battle of Quebec. Montcalm and Wolfe, the commanding generals of both armies, perish in battle.
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The French and Indian war started in 1754. The long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. Although British won they still faced colonial problems.