Lecture #1: The War for Empire

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Across
  1. 2. British general whose forces captured Louisbourg and who later became overall British commander in the colonies
  2. 4. British general defeated while advancing toward Fort Duquesne in 1755
  3. 5. French fortress captured by the British in 1758, giving them control of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River
  4. 6. Colonial leader who argued that the American Revolution began in the minds of the people before the fighting started
  5. 9. French officer killed by Washington's forces in May 1754
  6. 11. Fort captured by the British in the summer of 1759
  7. 12. Virginia major sent to challenge French claims in western Pennsylvania
  8. 15. Duke of Newcastle who formed a coalition government with William Pitt
  9. 16. British general who defeated the French at the Plains of Abraham in 1759
  10. 17. French philosopher who described Canada as little more than a few acres of snow
  11. 18. Virginia governor who sent George Washington to warn the French to leave the Ohio River Valley
  12. 19. British leader who planned to defeat France by attacking its colonies
Down
  1. 1. Colonial leader who proposed the Albany Plan of Union
  2. 3. British general defeated by a much smaller French force at Carillon in 1758
  3. 7. French fort built at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers
  4. 8. British general who captured Fort Duquesne in 1758
  5. 10. Fort captured by the British in the summer of 1759
  6. 13. Fort established by Washington where he surrendered to the French in July 1754
  7. 14. New name given to Fort Duquesne after its capture by the British in 1758