Battleground of North America1697 - 1750

Treaty of Ryswick - 1697

• Brief end to hostilities in North America

• French got a massive amount of land

• This expansion include forts from Biloxi to York on the Hudson Bay

Queen Anne’s War 1704 - 1713

• The French King Louis XIV wants a grandson on the Spanish Throne

• England didn’t• Fought in Europe and

England won

Treaty of Utrecht

• France lost all North American possessions except for Isle Royale and Isle St. Jean and New France

• Keeps the Mississippi

• Keeps the Ohio River valley

• Britain got India and Gibraltar

• Britain now controls the Gulf of the St. Lawrence

• France now starts to build forts to control areas

• Louisbourg• 30 years of stability

King Georges War

• 1744-48 – King Georges War – French attack Canso a fishing village

• Massachusetts Gov.Shirley – takes Louisbourg

• Treaty of Aix la Chapelle Louisbourg returned to the French!

• 1748 – British build Ft. Halifax

Fort Oswego, Lake OntarioFrench Fishing Rights

Conflict

• In the early 1750s, the French commenced

• construction of a line of forts, starting with

• Ft Presque Isle on Lake Erie

• followed by Ft Le Boeuf

• needed to control areas

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Rivalry in the Ohio River Valley

English and French build forts now in the ORV to claim land

• 1748 – Land speculators from Virginia obtain a grant from the British crown of 2 m acres in the Ohio River Valley

• French challenge this• 1754- G. Dinwiddie

(Virginia) sends G. Washington out to expel the French. They pounce on a party of Frenchmen from Ft Duquesne, kill their leader, retreat and build Ft. Necessity.

• The French attack Ft. Necessity and force Washington into signing a peace treaty. Shocked the British and the 13 colonies!

French Indian War: 1754

• French build more Forts

• In the 1750’s French build Ft. Le Beouf

• Fort Presque Isle

• British and French fight it out at Ft Duquesne again and British General Braddock is defeated!

• Another shock!

The Acadians

• Settled on the Bay of Fundy 1632

• French– Catholic

» Farmers» 1713 – pass to the

British» by 1750 about

10,000 Acadians