1. Control of North America
How will either France or England control N.A.?

2. Alliances European Powers What do you have to offer potential allies??
How will they benefit from siding with you?
First Nations
What do you want in an alliance?
What do you have to offer?
What do you think of other potential alliances?

3. King William's War “The War of the Grand Alliance” When: 1689 – 1697
Who: France (led by Frontenac)/New France/Native allies vs. England/English America/ Iroquois
Where: North America
Why: To block Louis XVI's overseas expansion.
Result:
England captured Acadia
Treaty of Ryswick (all captured territories were returned to their original territories)

4. Queen Anne's War “the War of the Spanish Succession” When: 1704 – 1713
Who: France and her allies vs. Great Britain and her's
Where: Europe and the West Indies (but also North America)
Why: Conflicting claims to the Spanish throne
Result: Treaty of Utrecht (1713) granted considerable territory to England; Fr. retained Ile St-Jean [PEI] and Ile Royale [Cape Breton], but ceded Acadia and Nfld to the Eng . The treaty is acknowledged as the end of French expansion and the rise of the British Empire.

5. The Seven Years' War When: 1755 – 1763
Who: Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain.
Where: North America (started in the Ohio River Valley)
Why: Britain's war aims were to destroy the French navy and merchant fleet, seize its colonies, and eliminate France as a commercial rival. France found itself committed to fighting in Europe to defend Austria, which could do nothing to aid France overseas.
Result: Treaty of Paris – New France is declared a British Posession

6. Louisbourg Was built by the French to protect the St. Lawrence River
Located on Cape Breton Island
Was supposed to be impregnable
Captured by the New Englanders in 1745

7. Louisbourg and Acadia

8. Louisbourg