The French and Indian War - A Few Acres of Snow

American Political History · Jul 4, 2023 · 22m

In the spring of 1760, two armies sat outside Quebec and stared at the river, because whoever’s ships came first would win a continent. This is the story of how the French and Indian War ended — and how the victory planted the seeds of a far bigger one. From the bloody French revenge at Sainte-Foy, to three British armies converging on Montreal across a thousand miles of wilderness within a day of each other, to the burning of the French colors and the insult Amherst dealt a beaten enemy; then out to a war gone global — Havana, Manila, an empire stripped at both ends — and to the peace table…