In the Treaty of Paris France ceded Canada to Britain and the Louisiana Territory, including New Orleans, to Spain. Spain gave up its claim to Florida. Shortly after the Treaty, King George issued a ...

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 ...