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The Seven Years War

The Seven Years War. The key players for the British:. Britain ’ s Minister of War, William Pitt. 2. Major-General James Wolf. 3. Admiral Jeffrey Amherst. 4. Admiral Sir CharlesSaunders. 5. General Robert Monckton. …and for the French team…. 1. General le Marquis de Montcalm.

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The Seven Years War

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  1. The Seven Years War

  2. The key players for the British:

  3. Britain’s Minister • of War, William Pitt

  4. 2. Major-General James Wolf

  5. 3. Admiral Jeffrey Amherst

  6. 4. Admiral Sir CharlesSaunders

  7. 5. General Robert Monckton

  8. …and for the French team…

  9. 1. General le Marquis de Montcalm

  10. 2. Chevalier de Levis

  11. 3. Governor General Vaudreuil

  12. …and the members of the various regiments on the British team…

  13. …and the French side…

  14. Seven Years' War, 1756-63 The protagonists were: Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain.

  15. Britain's war aims were to destroy the French navy and merchant fleet, seize its colonies, and eliminate France as a commercial rival.

  16. France found itself committed to fighting in Europe to defend Austria, which could do nothing to aid France overseas.

  17. Hostilities began in 1754 in America's Ohio Valley when a Virginian major of militia, George Washington, ambushed a small French detachment. He was subsequently forced to accept humiliating terms dictated by the commander of the French force sent to bring him to account.

  18. George Washington

  19. Louisbourg

  20. The Acadian settlers were subsequently rounded up by the New England forces and deported in 1755.

  21. To France Grand Pre Deportation

  22. George Craig, La Deportation des Acadiens, 1893

  23. Les Grands Derangements

  24. Colonel John Winslow announces the ‘deportation’ at Grand Pre.

  25. In April 1756, more French troops and a new commander, the Marquis de Montcalm, arrived in Canada, and the next month Britain declared war. Montcalm

  26. Elsewhere, Louisbourg and Guadeloupe were taken by the British.

  27. Siege of Louisbourg, 1758

  28. Siege of Louisbourg

  29. Supply ships reached Québec every year but the French refused to send more than token troop reinforcements. They pinned their hopes on an invasion of Britain to force the British to come to terms.

  30. In 1759, two British armies advanced on Canada while a third captured Niagara. The Royal Navy brought Maj-Gen. James Wolfe with 9000 men to Québec and Gen. Jeffery Amherst advanced up Lake Champlain. Wolfe engaged Montcalm in battle on Sept. 13 outside Québec, and inflicted a shattering defeat in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

  31. La Falaise and the Goat Path

  32. Quebec Goat Path Point de Levis

  33. The goat path

  34. Both Generals, Wolfe and Montcalm will die during the Battle on the Plains of Abraham. Montcalm Wolfe

  35. The Death of Wolfe, by Benjamin West

  36. Monument for Montcalm in Quebec

  37. The city surrendered a few days later…

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