Power Point presentation, class discussion. There are about twenty muster rolls and military returns filed among the Papers of the Provincial Council, 1682-1775 (Record Group 21, available on microfilm rolls: 580-587). They were on a mission to drive the French out of the upper Ohio Valley. Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville asserted France’s claim to the region by placing this lead plate and five others along tributaries of the Ohio River-a traditional way of marking territory. Students will learn about the causes and effects of the French and Indian War through a perspective activity. Original documentation of service by Pennsylvanians in the French and Indian War is limited. On an April morning in 1754, George Washington led 132 men from Alexandria, Virginia. The French and Indian war represents the generic notion for what is known in the history of the European continent as the Seven Years War. Both France and Great Britain claimed ownership of the Ohio Valley. The name refers to the two main enemies of the British: The. They initiated a world war between the English and French (known globally as the Seven Years’ War) that ended with the expulsion of France from the mainland of North America. The French and Indian War (17541763) was the North American chapter of the Seven Years War.
In 1754, when Virginia land speculators looked to push settlement north of the Ohio, French troops out of Canada and Virginia soldiers commanded by young George Washington skirmished in what is now southwestern Pennsylvania. This conflict was known as the Seven Years War, the Great. The two nations were locked on a collision course. Continued conflict between the British and the French escalated into war during the 1750s and 1760s. Sixty-three years later a French explorer laid claim to the Ohio Valley. The Virginia colony’s boundaries, defined by James I’s Charter of 1609, extended way beyond the Shenandoah Valley and included land north of the Ohio River. Absent was the eastern Virginia dependence on tobacco and slavery. German, Scots-Irish, and English settlers introduced ethnic and religious diversity there and established small farms where they grew grain and bred livestock. To shield against Indian attacks and French expansion, and to deter runaway slaves from establishing colonies in the mountains, British and colonial leaders encouraged settlement of the Shenandoah Valley. Beyond were the Appalachian Mountains, a protective natural barrier from French settlements that stretched from Canada to Louisiana. The colonial backcountry reached into the Shenandoah Valley.
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