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1753 |
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December 11 |
Washington arrives at Fort Le Boeuf |
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1754 |
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July 4 |
Washington surrenders Fort Necessity |
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July 11 |
Albany Congress adjourns |
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September 15 |
Braddock commissioned commander in chief |
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1755 |
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February 20 |
Braddock arrives in Virginia |
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June 8 |
Boscawen captures the Alcide and the Lys |
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July 9 |
Braddock’s Defeat on the Monongahela |
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September 8 |
Battle of Lake George |
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1756 |
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May 18 |
Great Britain declares war on France |
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May 20 |
French defeat Admiral Byng off Minorca |
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June 9 |
France reciprocates and declares war on Great Britain |
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August 14 |
Surrender of British forts at Oswego |
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1757 |
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June 29 |
Pitt-Newcastle ministry takes office |
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July 25 |
Duke of Cumberland defeated at Hastenbeck |
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August 5 |
Lord Loudoun abandons attack on Louisbourg |
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August 9 |
British surrender Fort William Henry |
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November 5 |
Frederick the Great defeats French at Rossbach |
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1758 |
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June 8 |
Wolfe leads British troops ashore in Garabus Bay |
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July 8 |
Battle of Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga) |
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July 27 |
French surrender Louisbourg to Amherst |
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August 27 |
Bradstreet raids Fort Frontenac |
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September 14 |
Grant’s battle outside Fort Duquesne |
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October 12 |
Battle of Fort Ligonier |
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November 24 |
French abandon Fort Duquesne |
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December 29 |
British capture Gorée in Senegal |
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1759 |
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January 16 |
Barrington lands on Martinique |
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January 23 |
Barrington lands on Guadeloupe |
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May 2 |
French surrender Guadeloupe to British |
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June 26 |
Wolfe’s troops land near Quebec |
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July 25 |
French surrender Fort Niagara |
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July 26 |
French abandon Fort Carillon |
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July 31 |
French abandon Fort Saint Frédéric |
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August 18–19 |
Boscawen defeats de la Clue off Lagos |
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September 13 |
Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Quebec) |
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September 17 |
French surrender Quebec |
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October 4 |
Rogers and his rangers attack Saint Francis |
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November 20 |
Hawke defeats Conflans in Quiberon Bay |
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1760 |
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April 28 |
Second Battle of Quebec (Sainte-Foy) |
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May 15 |
British relief fleet arrives at Quebec |
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August 8 |
Fort Loudoun surrenders to Cherokee |
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September 8 |
French surrender Montreal and all of Canada |
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September 13 |
Rogers departs Montreal for Detroit |
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October 25 |
King George II dies |
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1761 |
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August 15 |
Bourbon Family Compact signed |
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October 4 |
William Pitt resigns his office |
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1762 |
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January 4 |
Great Britain declares war on Spain |
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February 13 |
British capture Martinique |
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August 11 |
British capture Havana |
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October 6 |
British capture Manila in Philippines |
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1763 |
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February 10 |
Treaty of Paris signed |
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May 7 |
Pontiac first tries to take Detroit |
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June 2 |
Chippewa capture Fort Michilimackinac |
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July 31 |
Battle of Bloody Run near Detroit |
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August 5–6 |
Battle of Bushy Run near Pittsburgh |
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August 10 |
Relief of Fort Pitt by British forces |
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October 7 |
Proclamation of 1763 issued by George III |
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November 16 |
Gage succeeds Amherst as commander in chief |