The French and Indian War examines the North American theatre of the wider Seven Years’ War. It explains the competing French and British claims in the Ohio Valley and the decisive role of Native nations whose alliances reflected their own strategic interests.
The book follows early frontier defeats, the campaigns for Louisbourg, Quebec and Montreal and the collapse of French imperial power in mainland North America. It also shows how wartime debt, territorial change and British policy towards colonists and Indigenous peoples helped create the next imperial crisis.
