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French and Indian War 1754 - 1760

Colonial War between England and France in North America and Canada
during the Seven Years War

The French and Indian War reflected the Seven Years conflict which at that time was fought in Europe, but also in the Caribean and the West Indies.
Already befor the 1740s there hab been some problems between the French and the English in North America. Economical interests collided among settlers and fur-traders in the area which today is depicted by the big towns of the east coast- New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Williamsburg - up to the Canadian frontier along the Hudson and St. Lawrence rivers.
Mainly concentrating at the Virginian and Pennsylvanian frontier regions, the reason for the start of fighting was Fort Duquesne which had been erected in the Ohio valley 1753/1754 by French troops.

An English military command under the young Lieutenant-General George Washington - composed of alliied Indians and English trappers - failed to drive out the French, but built the British fortification Fort Necessity. The British crown was not prepared for a war in the colonies and the opinions of the New-England provincial governers differed whether to fight or not. Especially the Pennsylvanian German settlers before 1754 refused to enter a war, as many of them belonged to non-violent religious communities.

Whereas in autumn 1754 England shipped the first detachment of 700 men of the 44th Infantry, France sent 3000 into the crisis area. The developing war was predominantly fought in the wilderness. 55000 French living in North America/Canada faced half a million of British settlers. As the French mainly saved their lives with trapping and furtrading with the native population, they seemed a lesser threatening to the local Indian tribes compared to the English settlers who grasped for their land. Because of their professional living in the woods and on the rivers, the French were used to the requirements of a frontier war far from civilisation. The mass of the Indians alliied with them.

The war was a cruel one. Terrorizing bands of French trappers and Indians under French command ambushed the lonely and unprotected settlements. Premiums were paied for skalps taken from "hostile" men, women and children. On the English side, local militia dominated the fighting. Fortifications and Forts were built and destroyed. During the war, British troops got used to frontier fighting and some very effective Ranger-detachments, were raised. The most famous were Roger´s Rangers, wearing a distictive green "Uniform".
The campaign of 1757 saw the defeat of the British at Louisbourg and Halifax, they lost Fort Wiliam Henry. 1758 they conquered the french fortifications Fort Fontenac, Louisbourg and Fort Carillon, the year after Fort Duquesne and Quebec, 1760 Montreal. In September 1760 New-France capitulated and the whole region fell to the British Crown.

The victory of Admiral Hawkes over the French Fleet at Quiberon 1759 and the fact that Spain entered the war on England´s side 1761 lead to the end of the conflict with the contract of Paris 1763. With the same contract, the Seven Years war was ended. Great Britain got the North American territory east of the Mississippi including Spanish-Florida. Spain in turn got the former French West Mississippi valley.

1/72-138: French and Indian War 1754-1760. British Infantry (1)

1st and 2nd flag, 47th Foot. Louisbourg 1758, Quebec 1759 / 1st and 2nd flag, 45th Foot, Louisbourg 1758 / 1st and 2nd flag, 35th Foot. (1757 Fort William Henry, 1758 Louisbourg, 1759 Quebec).

1/72-139: French and Indian War 1754-1760. British Infantry (2)

1st and 2nd flag, 27th Foot (Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers) 1758 Fort Carillon / 1st and 2nd flag, 1st Foot (Royals). Louisbourg 1758 / 1st and 2nd flag, 44th Foot. Fort Carillon 1758.

1/72-140: French and Indian War 1754-1760. French Infantry (1)

Each Regiment had one white flag and several "ordnance flags" of identical design.

Regiment Royal Roussillon, white flag and ordnance flag. (1757 Fort William Henry, 1758 Carillon, 1759 Quebec, 1760 Montreal) / Regiment Artois, ordnance flag. Louisburg 1758 / Regiment Béarn, ordnance flag.Oswego 1756,  Fort Carillon 1758, Quebec 1759, Montreal 1760.

1/72-141: French and Indian War 1754-1760. French Infantry (2)

Each Regiment had one white flag and several "ordnance flags" of identical design.

Regiment La Reine, white flag and ordnance flag.1755 Lake George, 1757 Fort William Henry, 1758 Fort Carillon, 1759 Quebec, 1760 Montreal / Regiment Languedoc, odnance flag.1755 Lake George, 1757 Fort William Henry, 1758 Fort Carillon, 1759 Quebec, 1760 Montreal / Regiment Bourgogne. Ordnance flag, Louisburg 1758.

1/72-142: French and Indian War 1754-1760. Französische Infanterie (3)

Each Regiment had one white flag and several "ordnance flags" of identical design.

 Kanadische Milizen, ordnance flag, Fort Carillon 1758 / Regiment Royal La Marine, white flag and ordnance flag. 1758 Fort Carillon / Regiment La Sarre, ordnance flag.1756 Oswego, 1757 Fort W. Henry, 1758 Fort Carillon, 1759 Quebec, 1760 Montreal.

French and Indian War. Literature.

Philipp Katcher: The Armies of the American Wars 1753 - 1815. Osprey Publishing 1975.
R.May/G.Embleton: Wolfe´s Army, Osprey Men At Arms 1989.

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