So began the first act in what Americans still call the French and Indian Wars, and which is known in the rest of the world as the Seven Years War.162 This time it would be total war, and properly global, fought on multiple continents and in ruthless advancement of worldwide British and French imperial interests. It would carry European arms and warfare from the Ohio to the Philippines, from Cuba to the coast of Nigeria, and from the Heights of Abraham outside Quebec to the marshy flatlands and mango groves of Plassey. But the part of the globe it would transform most lastingly was India.
