We do not have many of the particulars of what the soldiers from Fauquier County, VA did during the French and Indian War, but we do know that a contingent was solicited in 1761-1763, to join the forces that had been in the field from 1755 to the end of the war in 1763. "French and Indian War", Ohio History Central, July 1, 2005,
Most tribes hoped that friendly trading arrangements could be made, but they also feared the large number of English colonists in the New World. Native Americans, including those in the Ohio Country, stood ready to defend their territory from the colonists' westward expansion.
Although French territory now belonged to England, the British did not have firm control over most of it. England now owned most of modern-day Canada and most of the land between the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi River. The end result in the New World was France's loss of practically all of its colonies in North America to the English. In 1763, both sides signed the Treaty of Paris (1763), which formally concluded the war. The French and Indian War continued in Europe, Africa, and Asia for three more years. Montreal fell the following year, leaving England in control of France's possessions in North America. In 1759, the English captured both Fort Niagara and Quebec, France's major city in the New World. With colonial assistance, British soldiers captured Fort Duquesne that year. In 1758, sizable numbers of British soldiers arrived to carry out Pitt's plan. William Pitt, the English Prime Minister, determined that the best way for the England to defeat the French in Europe was first to conquer the French in the New World. In 1757 the tide turned in favor of the English. As the English population increased, the Indians believed that white settlers would seek their fortunes in the west, encroaching all the more upon their land. Natives west of the Appalachian Mountains feared that the number of English colonists would continue to grow. Ohio Country natives enjoyed trading with both the English and the French. The major reason for the French victories was their Native American allies. The next few years witnessed French successes on the battlefield against the English, including General Edward Braddock's defeat in 1755. England did not officially declare war until 1756, although the conflict had actually begun two years earlier. A combined force of French soldiers and their native allies overwhelmed Fort Necessity on July 3, 1754, marking the start of the French and Indian War in the New World. If he could not drive the French from the area, he would at least contest their presence with his own stockade.
He retreated a few miles from the fort and constructed Fort Necessity. Hoping to capture Fort Duquesne, Washington quickly realized that the fort was too strong. In 1754, George Washington and a small force of Virginia militiamen marched to the Ohio Country to drive the French from the region. The French and their Indian allies destroyed it in 1752. A Miami village called Pickawillany in what is now western Ohio hosted English traders.
They also built Fort Duquesne (modern-day Pittsburgh) so they could defend their territory from English threats. In the early 1750s, French soldiers captured several English trading posts. In the 1750s, the French and the English each moved to deny the other access to the Ohio Country. By the 1750s, English colonists, especially the investors in a venture called The Ohio Company, also hoped to convert the wilderness into viable farms. Beginning in the 1740s both countries had merchants engaged in the fur trade with the Native Americans in Ohio. Both the English and the French claimed the land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The reason why the French and Indian War began in the New World involved the Ohio Country. Most of these conflicts began because each side hoped to gain trade or military advantages in Europe as well as in various European colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. All previous wars had begun in Europe, and with the exception of King George's War (1744 – 1748), no battles had been fought in the New World. What made the French and Indian War different from the earlier conflicts was that it began in the New World.
#Claimed land in the new world for two different countries series
The French and Indian War (1754 -1763) was one in a series of wars fought between England and France beginning in the late 1600s.
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