In 1753, Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia ordered a young, ambitious 21-year old George Washington on a mission deep into the Ohio Country to confront the French. Washington’s account of his journey to Fort Le Beouf and back made Major Washington a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1754 Washington’s surprise attack upon a small French force at Jumonville Glen. His subsequent surrender to French forces at the Battle of Fort Necessity helped to spark the French and Indian War, which was part of the imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The following year, Washington accompanied Major General Edward Braddock on his ill-fated march on Fort Duquesne.
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After the French and Indian War, the British gained control of nearly all of North America east of the Mississippi River. This made the British the undisputed colonial power on the continent. They gained control of the Ohio River watershed as well as Canada.
Great Britain lost more over than what they gained from the French and Indian war because whatever land they received from France after the Treaty of Paris (1763) they lost almost all of it. Also, Britain suffered war debt from both the revolutionary war and the French and Indian war.
