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Major Battles
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Fort Necessity
George Washington ordered an attack on the French scouting party and killed at least 10 French soldiers and capture 21 then French military attacked George Washington and his team and outnumbered him and Washington was forced to surrender -
Fort Beausejour
2,000 British soldiers went into battle against 162 French soldiers, After 13 days the 162 French soldiers had to surrender since they were outnumbered, After the battle Bristish now control the Isthmus of Chignecto -
Lake George
1,500 British soldiers and 200 Mohawk Indians under the command of William Johnson attacked and beat a large allied French and Indian force of 3,500 under German General Baron Dieskau -
Ticonderoga
16,000 British soldiers under the command of Generals Howe and Abercrombie and French forces of about 3,200, under the command of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm went into battle because the French had built the fort with high entrenchments, supported by three batteries, General Howe was killed in a skirmish, General Abercrombie ordered a direct frontal assault on the fort,the British were forced to retreat, however in 1759 the British successfully invaded the fort and renamed it Fort Ticonderoga -
Fort Frontenac
2,200 British soldiers under the command of British Lt. Col attacked 110 French soldiers, clearly the French were out numbered so they had to surrender immediately, therefore the British cut one of two major supply and communication lines that connected Montreal and Quebec City with the western territories of New Canada also seized 800,000 pounds of supplies from the fort -
Montreal
British forces of nearly 18,000 under the command of Jeffrey Amherst attacked 2,100 French soldiers to defend the city, after three days they were forced to surrender, Montreal was in the hands of the British, the war officially ended on Febraury 10 1763, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, as a result of the war France gave up nearly all of its territory in North America -
Fort Niagara
British forces defeated the French resistance in a 20-day battle because they invaded New France from three different directions, therefore the French had to abandon forts and crucial supply's, Bristish now control the eastern Great Lakes