![]() ![]() ![]() The Seven Years' War was really the first global war, and we're talking 150 Has a whole bunch of names is that it was fought inĪ whole bunch of places. This is a war with a whole bunch of names, and the reason that it It's called the Seven Years' War, the French and Indian War, the War of the Conquest, the Pomeranian War, the Third Silesian War, the Third Carnatic War. Years' War have two names, it has a whole number of names. Well, lemme tackle those two oddities in reverse order. One, that the people who named this war seem to be very bad at math because 1754 to 1763 is nine years, not seven, and that this war seems to have two names, both the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War, which is a name you So if you've beenįollowing along this far, you may have noticed two things. The Acadians moved down to Louisiana and became known as the Cajuns, and most importantly,Įngland became the world's preeminent empire. Thanks to the Seven Years' War, Canada became a British country, not a French country. Was incredibly influential not only on the American Revolution, but on the complexion of the world. ![]() The Seven Years' War, and I think that's a shame because the Seven Years' War The American Revolution, not its earlier iteration, Where they were joined by a Company from Maryland, which, about this time, had been raized-Captn McKay with his detachment remd at Winchester & the Virginia Regiment proceedd to Alexandria in order to recruit, & get supplied with cloathing & necessarys of which they stood much in need.Talking about major wars in colonial North America, we tend to think about Carolina on their March to join them-These being fresh, & properly provided, were ordered to proceed to Wills’s Creek & establish a post (since ⟨ illegible⟩ called Fort Cumberland) for the purpose of covering the Frontiers. And at Winchester met 2 Companies from No. The next morning we marched out with the honors of War, but were soon plundered contrary to the Articles of capitulation of great part of our Baggage by the Savages.įort Necessity Our Sick and wounded were left with a detachment under the care, and command of the worthy Doctr Craik (for he was not only Surgeon to the Regiment but a lieutt therein) with such necessaries as we could ⟨collect⟩ and the Remains of the Regimt, and the detachment of Regulars, took up their line for the interior Country. with some alterations that were insisted upon were the more readily acceded to, as we had no Salt provisions, & but indifferently supplied with fresh which, from the heat of the Weather, would not keep and because a full third of our numbers Officers as well as privates were, by this time, killed or wounded. In this situation & no ⟨prospt⟩ of bettering it terms of capitulation were offered to us by the ⟨enemy⟩ wch. They then, from every little rising-tree-stump-Stone-and bush kept up a constant galding fire upon us which was returned in the best manner we could till late in the afternn when their fell the most tremendous rain that can be conceived-filled our trenches with Water-Wet, not only the Ammunition in the Cartouch boxes and firelocks, but that which was in a small temporary Stockade in the middle of the Intrenchment called Fort Necessity erected for the sole purpose of its security, and that of the few stores we had and left us nothing but a few (for all were not provided with them) Bayonets for defence. George Washington’s Account of the Capitulation of Fort Necessity About 9 Oclock on the 3d of July the Enemy advanced with Shouts, & dismal Indian yells to our Intrenchments, but was opposed by so warm, spirited, and constant a fire, that to force the works in that way was abandoned by them. ![]()
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