The rich lands
which lay between and to the west of the French settlements of Canada and
the British colonies along the east coast of North America were inevitably
destined to become a battleground between the forces of these two European
rivals. From 1754 to 1763, the British and French fought for this wilderness of
huge potential in a conflict, which though part of the wider Seven Years War,
has come to be known as
The French &
Indian War
