Ned Ryun Continues His Series, “Days of Revolution.” Listen to Episode 7, “The French and Indian War.”
In this episode:
- The political and military tensions between Great Britain and France.
- The battle over land in the Ohio Territory.
- The dynamics of Native American tribes and the European powers.
- The early failures of Great Britain and George Washington in the French and Indian War.
- The engagement of the colonist militias help shift the war.
- The Treaty of Paris and the subsequent gains by the British.
- The headaches of managing new land and the question of taxation and colonialists.
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