Editing French and Indian Wars (section)

==Overview==
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The North American wars, and their associated [[Europe]]an wars, in sequence, are:

{| class="wikitable" align="center"
! Years of war
! US name
! Global name
! Treaty
|-
| align=center valign=center|1688–1697
| valign=top| {{plainlist|
* '''[[King William's War]]'''
* ''1st Intercolonial War'' (in [[French language|French]])<ref>Auguste Carlier, "Histoire du peuple américain. États-Unis, Volume 2", Paris, 1863, p.128 [https://books.google.com/books?id=qqcyAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Guerres+intercoloniales%22+amerique&pg=PA128]</ref>
}}
| valign=top|[[Nine Years' War]]
| valign=top|[[Treaty of Ryswick]] (1697)
|-
| align=center valign=center|1702–1713
| valign=top| {{plainlist|
* '''[[Queen Anne's War]]'''
* ''2nd Intercolonial War''
* '''[[Dummer's War]]'''
}}
| valign=top|[[War of the Spanish Succession]]
| valign=top|[[Treaty of Utrecht (1713)]]
|-
| align=center valign=center|1744–1748
| valign=top| {{plainlist|
* '''[[King George's War]]'''
* ''3rd Intercolonial War''
* '''[[War of Jenkins' Ear]]'''
}}
| valign=top|[[War of the Austrian Succession]]
| valign=top|[[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)]]
|-
| align=center valign=center|1754–1763
| valign=top|  {{plainlist|
* '''[[French and Indian War]]''' (in the U.S.)
* '''[[Seven Years' War]]''' (in Canada)
* ''4th Intercolonial War'' or ''War of the Conquest'' (in Quebec)<ref>Marcel Trudel, Guy Frégault, "La guerre de la conquête, 1754–1760", Montréal, 1955 [https://books.google.com/books?id=pO80AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Guerre+de+la+conquete%22]</ref> 
* '''[[Father Le Loutre's War]]'''
}}
| valign=top|[[Seven Years' War]]
| valign=top|[[Treaty of Paris (1763)]]
|}

Naming conflicts after the British monarch of the day is a convention in United States history related to its early European settlement as majority-English colonies. Canadian convention uses the name of the larger European conflict (e.g., the "War of the Grand Alliance" rather than "King William's War") or refers to the wars as the Intercolonial Wars.

As the wars proceeded, the military advantage moved toward the British side. This was chiefly the result of the greater population and productive capacity of the British colonies compared with those of France. In addition, the British had the greater ability to resupply their colonies and project military power by sea. In the first three conflicts, the French were able to offset these factors largely by more effective [[mobilization]] of Indigenous allies, but they were finally overwhelmed in the fourth and last war.

The overwhelming victory of the British played a role in the eventual loss of their thirteen American colonies. Without the threat of French invasion, the American colonies saw little need for British military protection. In addition, the American people resented British efforts to limit their colonization of the new French territories to the west of the [[Appalachian Mountains]], as stated in the [[Proclamation of 1763]], in an effort to relieve encroachment on Indigenous territory. These pressures contributed to the [[American Revolutionary War]].

The first three of the French and Indian Wars followed the same basic pattern: they all started in Europe and then moved to North America. Once the conflict broke out in North America, it was mostly fought by colonial militias. The final conflict broke this pattern by beginning in North America. In addition, the British used more regular troops alongside colonial militia. They returned almost none of the French territory seized during the war. France was forced to cede its extensive territory in present-day Canada and ''Louisiane''. The British victory in the French and Indian Wars reduced France's New World empire to [[St. Pierre and Miquelon]] (two islands off [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]]), a few [[West Indies|West Indian]] islands, and [[French Guiana]].

[[File:Imperial Wars timeline.png|center|600px|Timeline]]