:: Colonial Wars
1754 - 1763 |
|| | French and Indian War | || | Great Britain and its native allies vs. France and its native allies |
(Part of the Seven Years War, 1756-1763)
| June 19, 1755 | Capture of Fort Beausejour | |
| Fort Beausejour, in Nova Scotia, is captured by British and Provincial troops under Colonels Robert Monckton and John Winslow. | July 1755 | Draper's Meadow massacre |
| a small outpost in southwest Virginia, at the present day Blacksburg, was raided by a group of Shawnee Native warriors, who killed at least five people including an infant child and captured five more. The Natives traveled back with their hostages to a Shawnee village in Kentucky. One of the captives, Mary Draper Ingles later escaped and returned home on foot through the wilderness. | Sept. 8, 1755 | Battle of Lake George |
| Sir William Johnson successfully repels French forces commanded by Ludwig August, Baron von Dieskau. | Aug. 1757 | Fort William Henry Massacre |
| Following the fall of Fort William Henry, between 70 and 180 British and colonial prisoners are killed by Native allies of the French. | July 26, 1758 | Capture of Louisberg |
| Amphibious expedition commanded by General Sir Jeffrey Amherst and Admiral Edward Boscawen captures Louisbourg the second and final time. | Sept. 13, 1759 | End of the siege of Quebec |
| British siege of Quebec ends in victory when Major General James Wolfe defeats Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham. | Sept. 8, 1760 | Capture of Montreal and Canada |
| British take Montreal; Pierre de Cavagnal de Vaudreuil, Governor of New France, surrenders the whole of Canada. | Feb. 10, 1763 | Treaty of Paris |
| Ending the Seven Years War and making Britain the supreme power in North America. |