injured and the weary, have retired to their camps. A man is seen lying on the ground

calling out for his mother to come and rescue him from this hell on earth that has

become his life. He is in such pain and agony one can only imagine. Another soldier

is seen on the ground next to the other, only this one is dead, one of thousands. A

massacre has been, and many more will come. This is the French and Indian War.

The French and Indian War, or the Seven Years War as the Europeans called it,

was known as the first world war and has a few different beginnings. Hostilities first

began in 1629 with the English occupying Quebec from 1629 until 1632. In 1752,

Robert Dinwiddie started granting land to citizens of his colony, setting in motion the

events that inevitably would lead to the war in 1756. Another conflict was brought

about when a young Virginian, George Washington, was ordered in 1753to tell the

French they were occupying Virginia's territory. On his next mission, to gain British

Control in the west, Washington heard of the surrender of Fort Prince George so he

changed by the Revolution, ending this decade of peace.

renamed it Fort Pitt. For the first time, the British has control of the entire upper

However, peace only lasted 10 years. The history of the continent would be forever

fights were pretty much inconclusive but the French obviously had the upper hand in

New Orleans and everything west of the Mississippi to Spain. It wasn't until 1764 that

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