Editing French and Indian War (section)

==Nomenclature==
In British America, wars were often named after the sitting British monarch, such as [[King William's War]] or [[Queen Anne's War]]. There had already been a [[King George's War]] in the 1740s during the reign of [[George II of Great Britain|King George II]], so British colonists named this conflict after their opponents, and it became known as the ''French and Indian War''.<ref name="anderson crucible of war 747"/> This continues as the standard name for the war in the United States, although [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous peoples]] fought on both sides of the conflict. It also led into the Seven Years' War overseas, a much larger conflict between France and Great Britain that did not involve the American colonies; some historians make a connection between the French and Indian War and the Seven Years' War overseas, but most residents of the United States consider them as two separate conflicts—only one of which involved the American colonies,<ref>Jennings, p. xv.</ref> and American historians generally use the traditional name. Less frequently used names for the war include the ''Fourth Intercolonial War'' and the ''Great War for the Empire''.<ref name="anderson crucible of war 747">Anderson (2000), p. 747.</ref>
[[File:SevenYearsWar.png|thumb|275px|Belligerents during the [[Seven Years' War]]. Canadians and Europeans view the French and Indian War as a theater of the Seven Years' War, while Americans view it a separate conflict.]]

In Europe, the French and Indian War is conflated into the Seven Years' War and not given a separate name. "Seven Years" refers to events in Europe, from the official declaration of war in 1756—two years after the French and Indian War had started—to the signing of the peace treaty in 1763. The French and Indian War in America, by contrast, was largely concluded in six years from the [[Battle of Jumonville Glen]] in 1754 to the capture of Montreal in 1760.<ref name="anderson crucible of war 747"/>

Canadians conflate both the European and American conflicts into the Seven Years' War ({{lang|fr|Guerre de Sept Ans}}).<ref name=ce/> French Canadians also use the term "War of Conquest" ({{lang|fr|Guerre de la Conquête}}), since it is the war in which [[New France]] was conquered by the British and became part of the British Empire. In Quebec, this term was promoted by popular historians [[Jacques Lacoursière]] and [[Denis Vaugeois]], who borrowed from the ideas of [[Maurice Séguin]] in considering this war as a dramatic tipping point of French Canadian identity and nationhood.<ref name="BucknerReid2012">{{cite book|author1=Brian Young|editor1=John G. Reid|title=Remembering 1759: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory|chapter=Below the Academic Radar: Denis Vaugeois and Constructing the Conquest in the Quebec Popular Imagination|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiOOuORbGpAC&pg=PT233|date=2012|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-9924-3|pages=233–}}</ref>