ABSTRACT
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, colonial America saw protracted fighting between the great powers of Europe on the one hand and the American colonists and Native Americans on the other. European powers, namely France and Great Britain, exported their continental conflicts to America, and colonists fought to gain more land and defend themselves against Native American attacks. The struggles between France and England climaxed during the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the colonies, when British victories largely drove the French from North America. Several years later, the British would themselves be humiliated in North America, with their defeat in the War of American Independence.
