Before he led a revolution, George Washington sparked one. This video explores how a young officer’s ambush in the Ohio Valley helped ignite a global conflict—the Seven Years' War. Known in North ...

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! David Narret lectures on the events leading up to the French and Indian War. American History professor David Narrett lectures about the events ...

A scene depicting a battle, possibly during the French and Indian War, was found in the walls of a 18th-century home in East Hartford. Marc-Yves Regis I / Special to the Courant ...

A cache of love letters from the French and Indian War sat unopened for nearly 265 years. Now the letters to French sailors have finally been revealed.

This week (Feb. 10) in 1763, France and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, thereby ending the French and Indian War (sometimes called the Seven Years War). At first ...

Hidden away in the hills of Fayette County, Jumonville Glen is where the first shots of the French and Indian War were fired. A group of colonial militia, led by a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel ...

The French and Indian War was, in a nutshell, a territorial tug-of-war for control of the Ohio Valley. And unfortunately, for the Native Americans living there, they were caught in the middle of ...

The French and Indian War Foundation and the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society hosted the event. Historian Carl Ekberg talked about George Washington's ties to Winchester, Virginia ...