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| Samuel de Champlain | The Father of New France, who established a fateful alliance with the Huron Indians |
| Robert de la Salle | French empire builder who explored the Mississippi basin and named it after his monarch |
| Treaty of Utrecht | The document that ended the Seven Years War and awarded Acadia to Britain |
| War of Austrian Succession | Conflict that started with War of Jenkins' Ear and ended with return of Louisbourg to France |
| Fort Duquesne | Strategic French stronghold, later renamed after a great British statesman |
| George Washington | Militia commander whose frontier skirmish touched off the French and Indian War |
| Benjamin Franklin | Advocate of colonial unity at the unsuccessful Albany Congress |
| General Braddock | Blundering British officer whose defeat gave the advantage to the French and Indians in the early phase of the war |
| William Pitt | Splendid British political orator and organizer of the winning strategy against the French in North America |
| Plains of Abraham | Site of the death of Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, where France's New World empire also perished |
| Seven Years' War | The name for the world wide conflict of which the French & Indian War was a part |
| Pontiac | Indian leader whose frontier uprising caused British to attempt to limit colonial frontier expansion |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion |
| New Orleans | Strategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi River |
| Acadia | One-time French territory, renamed Nova Scotia, whose citizens were removed to Louisiana by the British in 1755 |
