The French and Indian War (also known, much less poetically, as the Seven Years’ War
I had encountered it originally through a public television version of “The Last of the Mohicans,” but I soon found that the real conflict exceeded even James Fenimore Cooper’s romantic imagination
In world history it was folded into the larger categories of colonial warfare and endless Anglo-French conflict
The war that evicted the French from North America was not only incredibly fascinating but also one of history’s most important wars. Indeed, from a certain perspective, it was more important than the American War of Independence:
The Revolution merely determined in what form Anglo-America would spread to embrace continental empire and global power, while the French and Indian War determined whether that continent-spanning America would come into being at all.
Ross Douthat NYT July 2021
Vi som barn läste Den siste mohikanen vet att mohikanerna, som stred på engelsmännens sida, var ädla och tappra, medan irokeserna, som stred på fransmännens sida, var svekfulla och blodtörstiga.
Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order by John Shovlin
‘The Victory of Montcalms Troops at Carillon
John Law urged the French monarchy to adopt his “System” of public credit and paper money. Law fell out of favour and was exiled in 1720, when the failure of his joint-stock vehicle, the Mississippi Company, caused France’s newly established Banque Générale to collapse.
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