Black men had long served in colonial militias and probably even saw action during the French and Indian War, explained retired Maj. Glenn Williams, a historian at the U.S. Army Center for ...

[music playing] These events marked the opening of what would become known as the French and Indian War. The outnumbered ... member William Pitt, whose Black and gold coat of arms inspired the ...

Learn the history of the French and Indian War! With British and French colonists, and the Native Americans all living on the same continent, a conflict was only inevitable. The French and Indian ...

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War Secrets of ... a night “as black as pitch,” as the young ...

A heroine who aided Black Watch soldiers in the Great War is to be honoured this week as the French diplomatic service opens new premises in Edinburgh to strengthen links with Scotland. Did you ...

The French and Indian War was fought between France and Britain, along with each empire’s Indigenous allies, over control of the Americas. Sparked accidentally in 1754 by a 22-year-old unknown ...

The site of the first skirmish of the seven-year-long French and Indian War has been verified after a four-week archaeological dig that involved multiple organizations found artifacts, including ...

On this day in 1754, George Washington, a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel in the British Army and the nation’s future first president, led an attack on French forces at Jumonville Glen, near ...