The French and Indian War is an extension of the Seven Years’
War of 1756-63 that pitted the colonies of British America against New France.
The French were defeated and lost vast territories, including Canada and French
Louisiana. The Brits gained land east of the Mississippi River and removed
French threat to its thirteen colonies. The conflict trained many American
officers, including Washington, that would later fight in the Revolutionary
War. The Brits Empire grew substantially, but the war incurred great debts. The
Brits tried to tax the colonies more in order to pay the debt, causing the
colonies to unite just in time for the Revolutionary war.
Slaves were contributing to the Southern war effort by providing food, supplies, and manual labor.
Political conflict.........
The Western Front was the main theatre of war during the First World War. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne. Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France, which changed little except during early 1917 and in 1918.
Mark II with Canadian infantry at Vimy Ridge
Date
4 August 1914 – 11 November 1918
(4 years, 3 months and 1 week)
Location
Belgium, north-eastern France, Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg, western Germany
Result
Allied victory
End of World War I
