helped to ignite the start of the Seven Years’ War, also known as the French and Indian War, with British and French forces playing out their traditional rivalry in the New World. The prize for the country that won would be the lands which both England and France wanted to control, those resource-rich, seemingly boundless stretches of fertile soil, deep forests, and the promise of wealth. For the colonists, who of course sided with the British because they saw themselves as British, winning was of paramount importance; they were fighting for their homes.
