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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
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
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!