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Battle of Fort Necessity

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The Impulse to the French and Indian War

The Battle of Fort Necessity between France and England marked the beginning of French and Indian war . The French and British colonists immediately after the war of the Austrian succession which was fought between 1740 and 1748 moved closer to armed conflict owing to their desire to expand their territories to the fertile and rich Ohio River valley . Both the French and British considered the area along the Ohio River to be unchartered and therefore formally unclaimed

. According to the British , the area was to be open for trade to both sides and thus established the Ohio Company as a result of this claim . The French viewed this gesture as an attempt by the British to claim the entire area . In response , they sent regular troops and militia to evict any British settler or traders in this region . They also set to build forts . Along the Bay of Fundy in Acadian Nova Scotia , numerous new forts had been established by the French which also raised tension since the British considered these establishments to be in violation of the treaty signed at Aix-la-Chapelle (Marston , 2003 . Both the French and the British claimed large areas of land in this section thus making them consider each other as the transgressor . The relationship that the French government had with the Acadians , a French speaking population who due to treaty agreements had become subjects of the British Crown compounded the insults offered by...

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