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posted February 24, 2003 03:46 PM

French betrayals

I wonder how many times the French have betrayed British and Americans. This is the earliest I've found:

In Betrayals, historian Ian K. Steele gives us the true story behind Cooper's famous book, bringing to life men such as British commander of Fort William Henry George Monro, English General Webb, his French counterpart Montcalm, and the wild frontier world of Natty Bumppo. The Battle of Lake George and the building of the fort marked the return of European military involvement in intercolonial wars, producing an explosive mixture of the contending martial values of Indians, colonials, and European regulars. The Americans and British who were attacked after surrendering, as well as French officers and their Indian allies (the latter enraged by the small amount of English booty allowed them by the French), all felt deeply betrayed. Contemporary accounts of the victims--whose identities Steele has carefully reconstructed from newly discovered sources--helped to create a powerful, racist American folk memory that still resonates today. Survivors included men and women who were adopted into Indian tribes, sold to Canadians in a well-established white servant trade, or jailed in Canada or France as prisoners of war.

Explaining the motives for the most notorious massacre of the colonial period, Steele offers a gripping tale of a fledgling America, one which places the tragic events of the Seven Years' War in a fresh historical context. Anyone interested in the fact behind the fiction will find it fascinating reading.

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posted February 24, 2003 03:53 PM

My god you r desesperate

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posted February 24, 2003 03:59 PM

The French and Indian War was one in a string of wars fought between England and France beginning in the late 1600s. What made the French and Indian War so different from the earlier conflicts was that it began in the New World. All previous wars had begun in Europe, and with the exception of King George's War, no battles had erupted in the New World. Most of these conflicts began because each side hoped to gain dominance in Europe as well as in the various European colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

The reason why the French and Indian War erupted in the New World involved the Ohio Country. Both the English and the French claimed the land west of the Appalachian Mountains. Beginning in the 1740s both countries had merchants engaged in the fur trade with the Native Americans in Ohio, and by the 1750s, English colonists, especially the investors in the Ohio Company, also hoped to convert the wilderness into viable farms.

MAybe it's still for the same reason from the English