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Predating back to the arrival of the European settlers in the New World. The British settled in their first permanent territory in 1607, called Jamestown in Virginia, while the French formed their capital called New France in Quebec a year later. Each colony had its own interests and difficulties, and each sought to carry them out in their own terms. Not only the American continent was separated into two by massive hills and mountains, but equivalently divided in two fiercely by two great European powerhouses. For many years to come, the French and the British would have little contact with each other. For the French explorers, North America was a place rich in furs and easy trade of other valuable goods rather than a residential region. Their British counterpart, on the other hand, viewed North America as a home for poor and dissatisfied British citizens. However, with different interests and ambitions, North America territory promised a source of wealth and good economy due to its rich prospect in mining, farming and fur trapping. As a result of this conflict of interests, …show more content…

The French and Indian war roared to life when the British declared war in 1756. During the first three years of the war, the predominant French who made alliances with the Algonquian-speaking tribes, ruled the battlefield, convincingly defeating the British. By 1758, the tide turned to the British when they began to use the Indians to their advantage by making alliances with the Iroquois confederacy. The French suffered another blow when they were abandoned by the majority of their Indian allies. Outgunned and outnumbered, it seemed no change in sight to their plight, the French was bowed with a climax defeat at Quebec in 1759. The war was over by the time signed the 1763 treaty of Paris in which they were forced to surrender all their ammunitions and possessions to the British and the

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