The most important cause of the war of 1812 were the economic sanctions put upon the US by the French and British. ... Yet again, this war the British abandoned their Native Indian counterparts. ... Some large events that had a large impact on the war was the death of Tecumseh and the Battle of the Thames where the Native Indian people were overrun by the Americans. ... While the Napoleonic Wars were going on in France, Canada was left unprotected for some time. Then after the war in France came to an end the British were able to protect Canada more thoroughly. ...

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The problem with land was the fact that it was already settled by the French and a great number of Indians. ... Washington was also given specific instructions not to fire first, because this would surely launch them into a war with the French. ... This war in the American colonies also sparked wars all across the world, even as far as Asia and India. ... This war had a terrible effect on the economies of both France and England. ... But unfortunately other tribes did not share the same cautiousness, and therefore the plagues and wars brought by the Europeans killed off a majority of the Indi...

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Due to over ambitious wars and extravagant spending on courts, Louis XIV and Louis XV had been successful in helping to bankrupt France. The cost of the wars was great in two ways. ... War broke out and France quickly became an Empire from the leadership of Napoleon. ... However, the wars caused great loss of life and destruction, and France's wealth was continually drained. ... It was issued to protect the colonies from the Indians and French in that land. ...

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This book places the reader on the side of the Shawnee Indians in the time period just before the revolution up and up to the middle of the War of 1812. ... In 1774, Cornstalk knew that war with the whites would be inevitable. ... Edmunds did a wonderful job writing about the traditional way of Indian life and how trading with the early French and British traders changed the culture. ... Tecumseh had to have many meetings with the officials at the fort to assure them that the large number of Indians weren't there for war. ... The war had begun. ...

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This then started the French and Indian War. ... Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War gave its name to the whole series of wars because it was the last and most important conflict. ... The war ended with the defeat of the French and Indians in 1763. ... Though the war first occurred as a result of the French and Indian War, that occurred between 1754 to 1763. ...

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This then started the French and Indian War. ... Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War gave its name to the whole series of wars because it was the last and most important conflict. ... The war ended with the defeat of the French and Indians in 1763. ... Though the war first occurred as a result of the French and Indian War, that occurred between 1754 to 1763. ...

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All the Indians are killed except Magua, who gets away again. ... Therewith Heyward leads a repulse of the engaging French. ... In my opinion, Cooper didn't appear to be taking sides with the French or the English as well as with the "whites" and the "reds". ... Part IV: Ideas, Concepts, or Summary Propositions I feel that the following four events were very crucial to the conclusion of The Last of the Mohicans: the war between the French and English; the attack of the Hurons against the Munro girls, Gamut and Heywerd (on the journey to the fort); the English surrender to the ...

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Indians had formerly lived a secluded life from the Europeans. ... There were not too many Indians at that time that a great use for Jesus and Christianity. ... This belief created war, violence, aggression, and attitudes of superiority in the hearts of the French Missionaries. ... All because of a group of French missionaries wanted to work for "greater glory of God," when in fact they were aiding in the destruction of an entire race of people. ... Overall, this movie was about Ethnocentrism and Colonialism and the problems that followed as a French missionary encountered a different lifestyl...

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Robert Rogers and Rogers Ranger During the time period of the French and Indian war there were many battles that took place. ... However, during the French and Indian war there were many small battles fought that many people do not know about or even remember. ... Unknown to Rogers and his men, the French at Ticonderoga had been reinforced by Sieur La Durantaye of the Companies Franche de la Marine with thirty French marines and 200 Iroquois and Nipissing Indians. ... Rogers was unable to form the remaining rangers into line facing the attacking French and Indians as the French counter-at...

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From the beginning of the French and Indian war to the end of the Creek War, many white families had lost members to raids and battles on the frontier. ... Indian wars broke out between European settlers and Native-Americans. ... Two wars resulted from the refusal of some Indians to accept this policy. They were the Black Hawk War and the Seminole War. ... Other wars took place in the West, most ending in tragedy for the Indians. ...

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By 1753, the problems between the French and the British were growing, this would end up becoming the French and Indian war (1754-63), which showed to be opportunities for Washington to get ahead in life. ... When Braddock and his troops were ambushed by the French and their Indian allies on the Monongahela River, Washington, even though he was very sick, attempted to rally the Virginia troops. ... He had first wanted to work out a deal with Britain, although he was quite disgusted with Britain's policies on western expansion, and the rankings of colonial officers during the French and In...

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Thomas Jefferson admired and lauded the American Indian. ... The only Indians he saw, as a boy, were "civilized". ... It was then contended, by France's Count Buffon, that all flora, fauna, and men of the New World were degenerate. ... In secret messages to his cabinet and Congress, Jefferson outlined a plan for removal of all Native Americans east of the Mississippi to make sure that this land would never fall to the French or the British. ... William Apess, a Native American of mixed Pequot and white parentage who fought for the United States in the War of 1812, became a Me...

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Maine's largest ancestry groups include people of English, French, Irish, French-Canadian, and German descent. ... The first school in Maine was known to be an Indian mission founded in 1696 by Sebastian Rasle, a Roman Catholic priest. ... Maine's most common wild flowers are the anemone, aster, bittersweet, black-eyes Susan, buttercup, goldenrod, harebell, hepatica, Indian pipe, orange and red hawkweed, white oxeye daisy, and wild bergamot. ...

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(Brinkley, p. 44) During the French and Indian War, the tension between the English and Native Americans began to further develop. Nearly all of the North American tribes sided and fought with the French against the English. ... The Iroquois were hesitant to fight the French for a known fear of them. ... After the American patriots won the war, they (Americans) slaughtered 96 Delaware Indians for the attack on a white family. ... Indians took Ft. ...

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Before the American Revolution, the American colonists and the British army fought together in the French and Indian War. ... "[King George III, pg. 2] This brought specific harm to the colonists, because their reason for fighting in the French and Indian war was to win land. ... The Americans had fought hard in the French and Indian War, and they now saw what they believed to be rightfully theirs, given to the former enemy as an affront. ... The French now had the same resources and profitable goods that the colonies had, the Americans now had to compete for customers with France. The Pr...

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The American colonists and the British had just defeated the French in the middle of the 1700s in the French and Indian war. ... Although the colonist participation was held to a minimum, they had learned a powerful lesson from the French and Indian War. ... The basis for the Civil War was economic "slavery. ... Violence was justified in both wars. ... In the case of the Civil War, violence was justified to end a cruel institution. ...

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They attended this mission not knowing what to expect, travel to new places, and face war with other tribes and other nations, traveling in the west. ... Jefferson has a specific instruction for Lewis and Clark when they were to run into an Indian tribe. " In all your intercourse with the natives treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit; commercial dispositions of the U.S of our wish to be neighborly, friendly and useful to them." ( Barth, 21) The reason Jefferson told Lewis to treat them as people and not savages is because Jefferson felt t...

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In the spring of 1754, war broke out between the British and French in America. Franklin thought the colonies needed to unite for self-defense against the French and Indians. ... He said, above all, the British must avoid a surprise attack by the French and Indians. ... As a result, the French and Indians ambushed the British. ... With this in mind, in the fall of 1776, he was sent to France to try to talk the French into entering the war on America's side. ...

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The American colonists and the British had just defeated the French in the middle of the 1700s in the French and Indian war. ... Although the colonist participation was held to a minimum, they had learned a powerful lesson from the French and Indian War. ... The basis for the Civil War was economic "slavery. ... Violence was justified in both wars. ... In the case of the Civil War, violence was justified to end a cruel institution. ...

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Settlers from Spain, France, Sweden, Holland, and England claimed land beginning in the 17th century. ... Many wars were fought in the 1600s and 1700s. Soon, the two countries with the largest presence were England and France. The two nations fought for control of North America in what Americans call the French and Indian War (1754-1763). England won the war and got control of Canada, as well as keeping control of all the English colonies. ...

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Even though he just wanted to hurt the British and French economically, he hurt the Americans more. ... This became known as the Black Hawk War, in which the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Black Hawk, defended their ancestral land whilst being forced out. ... Jackson's Indian Removal Act caused this war to occur, so he was the cause of these Indian deaths. ... This entire event of destroying the national bank was called the Bank War. This wasn't a bloody war, but a political one. ...

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Law was equally to the origin of the west Company (become later the French Company of India), that checked the whole commerce exterior of France, and notably the one of the Louisiana and New France. ... France king and of Navarre (1715-1774). ... It some is of even to the West Indies and to India, to the Senegal as in the Indian Ocean. ... The Succession war of Poland (1733-1738), of which the negotiation is taken to Has just foresees the discount of the dukedom of Lorraine to Stanislas Leczinski in compensation of the final loss of his origin kingdom; the province having come back to the Fran...

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Benjamin, who was a veteran of the French and Indian war, was not. ... He fought using Indian-like tactics. ... Martin and Burwell had fought in the French and Indian war together before. ... Martin and Villeneuve went directly to the Boar's Head Tavern where Martin knew he could find veterans of the French and Indian war who were ready to fight. ... The militia fought using Indian-style tactics. ...

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Through these years India was involved in many wars, creation of many religions and the home to many great leaders in the past. ... Soon after the Portuguese then French, Dutch, Danish, and British tried to take over the India. During the 19th century the British and French were the two European countries to take some control of India. ... The British left India high and dry; they turned religion against religion, they made promises that would be broken, sent thousands of Indian men to fight in World War 1 and only about a hundred men returned, they killed Indians of different religions whom t...

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American Indians, or Native Americans first came to North America during the last ice age. ... Other Europeans, for example, the French and the Dutch, came to the New World in search of profit. ... Shinnecock Indians used the island for fishing and hunting, but they did not live there. ... None of the tribes were allowed to enter the war on their own. ... It also fought on British side in the war against France, which lasted from 1754 to 1763. ...

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