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Treaty of Paris | signed in 1763 between France and Britain |
Marquis de Montcalm | French General who fought in the Battle of Quebec |
French and Indian War | between the French and their Indian allies against the British and their Indian allies |
Robert Dinwiddie | English lieutenant governor of Virginia who ordered Washington to build a fort |
Edward Braddock | led British and colonial troops in an attack against Fort Duquesne |
Plains of Abraham | a grassy field outside Quebec where both Wolfe and de Montcalm died in battle |
George Washington | Major who built a fort where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers met |
Christopher Gist | Virginia fur trader who worked for the Ohio Company |
William Pitt | Head of the British government in 1757 |
Jeffrey Amherst | Major General who captured Louisbourg |
William Johnson | English trader and official who helped gain Iroquois support for England |
Ben Franklin | proposed the Albany Plan of Union |
James Wolfe | sent by William Pitt to capture Quebec |
Joseph Brant | Mohawk Chief who helped persuade the Iroquois nations to side with the British |