HISTORY ANSWERS.

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1HISTORY ANSWERS
The Seven Years War in America was fought between England and France over the right
to ownership of the colonial settlements in the continent of North America. It is also known as
the French and Indian war. It had begun in the year 1756. There were several nations who were
involved in the war and the motive was to challenge the supremacy of England over the issue of
ownership of the colonies. The continent of North America was jointly colonized by England
and France, and the dispute between them over the demarcation of the borders among the
colonial establishments of the respective nation states had erupted which had resulted in the
Seven Years War. The aim was to gain more share of the territorial space of the continent. The
Seven Years war had been one of the reasons why the seeds of American Revolution had been
sowed and was provided leadership by George Washington who had later gathered quote a lot of
wealth and had become the leader of the masses. He was born in an influential family and had
owned plantations in Virginia. Belonging to a wealthy family and having enough courage to
fight as a soldier he had gathered quite a lot of influence (Anderson & Cayton, 2005).
The loyal British subjects in the 13 colonies had however turned to be adversaries in the
aftermath of the Seven Years War. The Seven Years War had sparked the spirit of nationalism in
America and the desire to free itself from the yoke of colonial British rule. France had already
gathered quite a lot of naval power and its army was also numerically stronger than that of
Britain. The illtreatment of the Indians in the French dominion of Pondicherry in southern part of
the country had also embittered the colonies which was why thirteen colonies had turned
antithetical to Britain. The amount of cruelty can be found in the memoir of Sarah Shade who
had witnessed the atrocities waged by British soldiers (Forster, 1969).
Sarah Shade was a British subject who was orphaned at a very young age. She is credited
for penning down the incidents which she had witnessed in colonial India and she also knew