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Fog of War
Fog of War
This fort, at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers, was a key strategic objective for both the French and the British.
What is Fort Duquesne
This person, head of a band of rangers that carried his name, laid out "rules of war" that blended European and Native American practices.
Who was Robert Rogers?
This kingdom was England's most significant rival for control of colonial North America in the 1750s.
What is France?
This person was the author of the famous novel The Last of the Mohicans.
Who is James Fenimore Cooper?
This Pennsylvania person, (in our time worth at least $100 a note) advocated in 1760 that Canada should not be returned to the French.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This future president was a key figure in triggering the Seven Years' War in America.
Who is George Washington.
The 1758 battle at this fort, described by New England soldier David Perry, was one of the bloodiest battles and worst British defeats of the war.
What is Ticonderoga?
This "Six nations" Indian confederacy, which was allied with the British through the "Great Covenant Chain," was the dominant Native American confederacy in the North.
Who were the Iroquois, or Hodenosaunee?
This term, _______, was typically used when describing Native American attacks on English settlements. In contrast, similar European attacks on Native American settlements were called by the far milder term, "raids."
What is a "Massacre?"
New England Protestant ministers such as Jonathan Mayhew welcomed French Canadian defeat because it meant that this branch of Christianity that he opposed would no longer be dominant in Canada.
What is Catholicism?
This fort was surrendered by George Washington to the French in 1754.
What is Fort Necessity?
This form of warfare was fought on a small scale using tactics of speed and surprise. It was derisively referred to by British colonists as the "skulking way of war."
What is Le Petit Guerre?
This Native American nation, which has the same name as a river and a state, opposed the British in Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes region.
Who were the Delaware?
This Philadelphian electrified public debate in Pennsylvania in 1764 when he wrote an anti-Paxton boys pamphlet that was one of the first tracts in American history to accuse non-Indians of engaging in a barbarous massacre of Native Americans.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Historians have long debated whether this series of major events in North America after 1763 was directly and primarily caused by the Seven Years' War.
What is the American Revolution?
This name for the war of 1754-1763, called in our book the 7 Years' War, is the most commonly used name for the conflict in American history textbooks.
What is the French and Indian War?
This term, derived from plant breeding, could be used to describe the adoption of European ways of war by Native Americans, and vice-versa.
What is hybridity?
Shingas said that this conduct was the cause of the Delaware's war against the English.
What is failure to protect Delaware settlements?
According to observer Pierre Roubaud, the Fort William Henry Massacre only stopped when General Montcalm ordered the English to do this:
What is rapidly march away?
The Seven Years' War ended differently than other Euro-Atlantic conflicts, but the global success of British arms along with devastating French and Spanish losses meant that the British could now, for the first time, do this in treaty negotiations.
What is press for major permanent territorial claims?