This was true of the nation even before it became independent. Conventional wisdom has it that, after the conclusion of the Seven Years War in 1763, Britain had to levy harsh taxes on its American ...

Hamilton painted six canvases, each commissioned by a different patron. This one, the finest in the series, was made for Sir James Grant between 1760 and 1763, and secured an international audience ...

Captain Simeon Ecuyer, Swiss by birth and commander of the British garrison at Fort Pitt, penned this troubled report at the outset of the great Indian uprising of 1763—known more generally as the ...

The Seven Years’ War from 1756 to 1763 and its impact on early Canada. Search archival records, contemporary art, scholarly insights and legal documents.

Relations between the American colonists and the British government came to a head after the British success against France in the Seven Years War of 1756-63. It was an expensive war and the French ...

The first French settlement in North America, known as “New France” from 1534 to 1763. Primary and secondary sources of data tell the story from a cultural, economic and military perspective.

When the Seven Years’ War ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Britain had secured the whole of the Atlantic coast of North America, and had also triumphed in India and the Caribbean.

Several arsenals in France produced muskets but the Charleville Model 1763 was the most common and soon all French muskets were referred to as "Charlevilles." In March 1777, some 25,000 Charleville ...

The settlement urge was blocked by the intervening French and Indian War (1754-1763) which pitted the French and their Indian allies against the English and the American Colonists. By 1758 the ...

Collections French Charleville Model 1763 Flintlock Musket, Surcharged "US" During the American War of Independence the French government supplied large quantities of muskets to the Continental army.

A significant historical incident happened in 1763 that brought a number of issues between the Quakers, the colonists and the Indigenous People to a tragic and bloody confluence. In early December, a ...

In 1763 Britain acquired the province of Quebec from the defeated French, where over 50,000 French-speaking and Roman Catholic inhabitants, the ‘Canadiens', greatly outnumbered the British Protestant ...