The American Revolution: The 7 Years War (1756-1763)

"This unit, Agents of Change: How American Indians Helped Change the World in Only Seven Years, will use the far-reaching impact of the Seven Years’ War to provide students with the context and evidence to better understand the history of early Indian and European relations."

"Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France."

"...the story of the Seven Years' War is much more than a phase in the early military career of George w ashington and more than a prelude to the American Revolution with which we are familiar- the struggle for liberty against oppression, rights against power, independence against subjugation. It is also a darker story..."

"...Previous research by historians and political scientists have mainly attributed the causes
of the French and Indian War to a security dilemma and the spiral theory of war. The current
study does not support this assertion. Instead, the current study asserts that because of
asymmetric information, the presence of an indivisible issue, and brinkmanship, bargaining
failed and conflict began between Great Britain and France...." An undergraduate honors thesis from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (2021).

"Half a century of conflict between Britain and France over North America culminated in the French and Indian War. When the war began, there were more than about 2 million British colonists in America and about 65,000 French in Canada"

"Scholars interested the complex, violent, and ultimately tragic relations between native peoples and colonists in eighteenth-century America could do worse than to examine the Friendly Association Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania."

"The French and Indian War was the final major European conflict for control of North America before the American Revolution. Great Britain defeated France and its Native American allies to establish the dominance of the British Empire in the American northeast, but British economic dependence on the American colonies increased in the process."

"Recent decades have seen a welcome revival of scholarly interest in the Seven Years War (1756–63). This has not been accompanied, however, by sufficient appreciation of the burdens imposed by the fighting and the enormous impact of these upon the states which were at war."

"The article focuses on the Battle of Quiberon Bay, a decisive naval engagement during the Seven Years' War on November 20, 1759 between the Royal Navy and the French Navy. Topics covered include French preparations for the invasion of Great Britain and Scotland to offset successive French defeats, several innovations made by British Admiral Edward Hawke to win the battle, and the eventual annihilation of the French fleet."

"By the mid-eighteenth century, both England and France had firm footholds in North America. English settlement was ensconced along the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Georgia, and tendrils of settlement"

"The Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) was a global conflict that spanned five continents, though it was known in America as the “French and Indian War.”"

"This is the first in a pair of original gouache paintings by F. Oetinger showing a violent cavalry battle during the Seven Years' War (1756-63), a conflict that involved all the major European powers and was fought on the European continent as well as in the colonies; it became known as the first global war."

Links to several primary sources related to the Seven Years War

"The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a variety of material associated with the French and Indian War (the North American part of the Seven Years' War), including manuscripts, maps, and prints."