New France
The French didn’t began to be impacted by the new world trade until the established a colony on Quebec on the St. Lawrence River and stared getting involved in the fur trade, their first colony was in the Narrows of New York Bay.
France participation in the Atlantic slave trade was kept to mostly to their west indies, but an estimated 790,000 African slaves were transported to the inland. But by 1786 about 28,000, and the colony received more than 40 000 slaves a year. Ruled over by a white population that numbered only 32,000.
French fur traders made first contacts with the Annihilable. The Ottawa first traded furs for weapons. Then the Ottawa traded with the Ojibwa who acquired firearms and steel weapons before they made contact with the French. Those northern nations …show more content…
Following the capture of Fort William Henry, shown in James Fennimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, many of the British garrison were massacred by Indian allies of the French. The French were unable to control their allies.
The 1757 appointment of William Pitt as British prime minister was the turning point in the French and Indian War. One of his first steps was to strengthen the British forces in North America and appoint commanders to pursue the war to a conclusion. He also instituted a policy regarding the employment of Indian allies. The work of Sir William Johnson, whose tireless efforts to convince the Iroquois to remain neutral at last bore fruit. The Iroquois persuaded the Delaware’s to cease warfare against the British.
During the summer of 1758, a strong British force failed to take Fort Ticonderoga, but that failure was offset by the capture of Louisburg and Fort Frontenac. British fortunes were also improving in the south, where Gen. John Forbes cut a new trail through the Pennsylvania wilderness in yet another effort to take Fort