The French and Indian War was a conflict between the French and the British during the mid seventeen hundreds. The French expanded to the Ohio River valley that created a repeating conflict with the British colonies, in 1756 the British formally declared war. The government sent Edward Braddock and over a thousand troops to go capture Fort Duquesne, Washington soon joined Braddock to help defeat fort Necessity. The new American commander Lord Loudoun caused many problems and failures for the British.Then in 1757 William Pitt paid Prussia to fight in Europe and saw the colonial conflicts as an opportunity to build an immense British empire. In July of 1758, at Louisbourg, the French and British were at battle again and the British won their