French and Indian War
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- 2. He was an English general who led troops during the Battle of Quebec
- 5. The land that both the British and the French wanted
- 6. This Indian tribe supported the French, but switched sides in 1758
- 8. After failing to capture Fort Duquesne, George Washington retreated and built this fort
- 9. The governor of Virginia sent this 21 year old man to deliver an ultimatum to the French, but a battle ensued and a French commander was killed. This event helped spark the war.
- 10. A war waged by Indians of the Great Lakes region against British rule after the French and Indian War
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- 1. Another name for the French and Indian War
- 3. He was the British Secretary of State who sent the nation’s best generals to America and borrowed money to pay colonial troops for fighting
- 4. A French fort at the top of the Ohio River where the Alleghny and Monogahela rivers meet. It was renamed Fort Pitt by the British
- 7. A 1763 document formally ending the war. The French lost all their North American territory except Haiti and a few small islands
- 11. He was a British general that was killed during battle in 1755 trying to march to Ft. Duquesne
- 12. This tribe helped the British and made their home in upstate New York