Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated it into French. The British overcame their resistance, transporting many to Louisiana, then under French control. When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzus ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. The 1755 British capture of Fort Beauséjour on the border separating Nova Scotia from Acadia was followed by its policy to deport the French inhabitants. British operations in 1755, 17 in the frontier areas of Pennsylvania and New York all failed, due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, and effective French and Indian offense. The dispute erupted into violence in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in May 1754, during which Virginia militiamen under the command of George Washington ambushed a French patrol. It began with a dispute over control of the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, called the Forks of the Ohio, and the site of the French Fort Duquesne and present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The French were greatly outnumbered, so they made heavy use of Indian allies. The war was fought primarily along the frontiers separating New France from the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia. French Canadians call it La guerre de la Conquête. According to the French historian Michel Winock it was the followers of Jules Guesde in the Socialist Party of France who first adopted the song at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, and it was in 1900 that they presented it at the International Congress in Paris. Canadian historians avoid the term 'French and Indian War', preferring 'Anglo-French rivalry.' The nation of Canada descends from both the British and the French. British and European historians use the term the Seven Years' War, as do many Canadians.

The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Indigenous forces allied with them. In the same year, the war escalated from a regional affair into a world-wide conflict. The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, who declared war on each other in 1756. The French and Indian War is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War.

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