Unit 8 – Arrival in Canada SECTION 8 –The Seven-Years War Wolfe and Montcalm – The Fall of New France

The Seven Years War involved all the major of the period, causing 900,000 to 1,400,000 deaths. It started in 1756 because of the British Antagonism against the colonials. Who resented British rule.

The war ended France's position as a major colonial power in the Americas where it lost all of its possessions, and its position as the leading power in Europe, until the time of the French Revolution. Great Britain, meanwhile, emerged as the dominant colonial power in the world.

Though the Seven Years War officially began in 1756 in Europe, hostilities had erupted two years earlier, in 1754, in America's Ohio Valley, when George Washington ambushed a small French detachment. This was the catalyst for the Great War to come

General John Forbes led a British expedition with 6,000 troops to drive out the French in Ohio Country. Forbes was successful in this expedition The French eventually withdrew out of Fort Duquesne.

John Forbes was a British general in the French and Indian War John Forbes was a British general in the French and Indian War. He is best known for leading the Forbes Expedition that captured the French outpost at Fort Duquesne and for naming the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

For France, the war in Europe was the top priority, so the country sent just a few troops. It also considered it was more important to protect its colonies in the West Indies, since sugar cane was more profitable than the fur trade in New France.

The Acadians got expelled from Britain because they wouldn’t take an oath of allegiance to the British The Acadians fought back against the British After this some Acadians managed to move home , but most went to Louisiana.

Major General James P. Wolfe was a British Army officer, known for his victory over the French in Canada. He was born The son of a distinguished general, Lieutenant-General Edward Wolfe, he saw service in Europe where he fought during the War of the Austrian Succession.

Wolfe then led 200 ships with 9,000 soldiers and 18,000 sailors on a very bold and risky amphibious landing at the base of the cliffs west of Quebec along the St. Lawrence River.

His army, with two small cannons, scaled the cliffs early in the morning of September 13, 1759, surprising the French under the command of the Marquis de Montcalm, who thought the cliffs would be unclimbable. They were defeated after fifteen minutes of battle.

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is notable for causing the deaths of the top military commander on each side: Wolfe's victory at Quebec enabled an assault on the French at Montreal the following year.

With the fall of that city, French rule in North America came to an end. Wolfe was shot three times, once in the arm, once in the shoulder, and finally in the chest. His body was returned to Britain and was laid to rest in the family tomb in St Alfege Church, Greenwich alongside his father.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War Montcalm was born near Nîmes in France to a noble family, and entered military service early in life. He also died after the Battle of the plains of Abraham with a shot to the lower body.

The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763 It had France lose all of its North American colonies and have them given to the British. New France has officially lasted for exactly 100 hundred years