7 Years War - PowerPoint Presentation

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7 Years WarStruggle for a ContinentSlide2

Review: Important “Firsts”

First Missionaries = Jesuits and

Ursuline

Nuns (First school for girls in all of North America)First Military presence = 1100 soldiers sent after attacks on the coureurs de bois First Government = Sovereign Council (The Governor, the intendant and the bishop Slide3

First European Women (800 sent with the sole purpose of marriage) =

filles

du

roi First Canadian Company = Hudson’s Bay Company Slide4

Review: Life on a Seigneury

Habitants = workers

Spring – plant, syrup, fish

Summer – maintain fields, cut wood, fur tradeFall – harvest, fish, hunt, preserve

Winter – repairs, fur trade, fun times Slide5

Review: Life on a Seigneury

Seigneur = lord

Parcelled

out the landBuilt manor houseBuilt millBuilt churchHeld court

Provided DefenseSlide6

Review: Life on a Seigneury

Church plays a very important role

Ability to work in the Fur Trade = more opportunity to make moneySlide7

Control of North America

The British vs the French Slide8

Was North America Won or Lost?

The history of New France was marked by struggles for power

French struggled for territory against the Iroquois and other native communities, but also the British and their American colonies

Native groups were often forced to side with the European power that would help them meet their goalsSlide9

Intro: Crash Course on 7 Yrs. War

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Seven Years’ War

England and France struggling against one another in Europe

1756 England tried to block French

supply ships from the St. Lawrence

1758 English take Louisbourg and destroy it

English also gain control of the

Ohio Valley

Louisbourg

Ohio ValleySlide11

The British Attack New France

1759 British capture

Niagara

and CarillonCommander James Wolfe sent to capture Quebec with 8000 soldiers and some cannonsAlso instructed to

blockade St. Lawrence RiverSlide12

The French Defense

New France Governor

Vaudreuil

and military commander Montcalm are cut off from their supplies and forced to seek refuge in QuebecIf Quebec fell so would New France Quebec itself was protected by cliffs – Protected by some natural barriers Montcalm waited for the attack Slide13

The French made many

alliances with

First Nations

early in the war, the Canadiens adopted their tactics in warWhen more troops from Europe arrived discrimination and intolerance increased and alliances were strained. Slide14

The British Plan

The British lay siege to Quebec, Wolfe burns farms along the St. Lawrence River to try to lure the French out of Quebec

Running out of time – The conflict could not be

won in the winterThe British secured their location on a cliff – 3 kilometers from Quebec and were ready to attackSlide15

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham

British ascend the cliffs at night and Montcalm awakes to a ‘thin red line’ of 4400 British troops

Montcalm prepares for attack with 4500 men (could have waited for 13000 reinforcements)

Wolfes troops better trained and equippedWolfe and the English stand their ground as the French charge – held until just 35

m away – then BOOMFrench are shattered and British win in just

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As one commentator put it;

“With one deafening crash, the most perfect volley ever fired on battlefield burst forth as it fired from a single monstrous weapon, from end to end of the British line.”Slide16

The Fall of New France

Wolfe and

Montcalm

were both killed British were defeated at the battle of Sainte-Foy, but able to use Quebec for supplies and reinforcements Montreal taken by 1760Battle of the Plains of Abraham was not the last battle in the 7 years war, but it is seen as the battle that turned the tides for the British