So we call it the seven years war. But really, it is the nine year war, and it is part of an almost century long war for various colonial locations throughout the globe, in this case, particularly north america. Instead of telling the story of the seven years war as it is always told, which typically in north america is something along the lines of this is the war that set up the american revolution. This is the war that kicked the french out of north america, led the colonists to be more unified, and led to all of the crises that would culminate in the american revolution. There is a documentary that pbs put out not long ago and they call it the war that made america. This kind of storyline is an important one. And it is one we could sell, but because this is a course on a french Atlantic World, i wanted to focus on the war as it was experienced by the people we have been talking about all semester. The war in the french atlantic. Much less focus on north america. Much less focus on f
He ordered that the slaves should be free from their bondage. Weecade ago and 1963, observed the 100 proclamation of that declaration signing. On the memorial of that fateful year, i was called upon as the last president to speak at Gettysburg Cemetery as the Vice President to speak at Gettysburg Cemetery, where a century before, words had been spoken which all of us have long remembered and on that occasion, i said this. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of mens skin, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. To the extent that the proclamation of emancipation is not full felt in fact, to that extent, we have fallen short of assuring freedom to the freed. When i spoke as the Vice President , i could not know that the future would present me shortly with the opportunity and the responsibility to contribute more toward fulfilling the fact of emancipation. Even if i could have known what lay ahea
America. He discusses the way britains frenchl victory impacted holdings and settlers who remained after the war ended. The college of william and mary in virginia. The class is about an hour. Were going to talk about the seven years war. It is often known as the first global war. It is a war that in the United States is often called the french and indian war. Beck, it is the war of conquest. It is the world conquest. The name is important. The civil war is one interpretation, but calling it the war of northern aggression means you have a different interpretation. Uebec, the war of the conquest has a really heavy political implication because they see this as the moment French Society was taken over, concorde by the british, and therefore, the moment conquered by the british, and therefore, the moment that you start to see them sees french canada with a long and brutal struggle for attending. Autonomy. The name the french and indian war comes from the british themselves. This is who th
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