SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Question
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British failure to form any alliances with Native Americans
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inexperienced military leadership
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a French alliance with the powerful Iroquois nations
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colonial acceptance of the Albany Plan of Union
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the end, it all came down to the fact that the British outnumbered the French, and even though The French did very well with guerilla tactics, it was the major battles that mattered, killing French soldiers that were not easily replaceable.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Iroquois Confederacy sided with the British during the French and Indian War. The Iroquois Confederacy claimed that it owned the lands that made up the Ohio Country. The British government, which argued that the Iroquois were their subjects, used the Iroquois claim to assert that it held legal title to the land.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Treaty of Paris Ends the War The British received Canada from France and Florida from Spain, but permitted France to keep its West Indian sugar islands and gave Louisiana to Spain.
Detailed explanation-4: -Many of the Iroquois people allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War, particularly warriors from the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga and Seneca nations. These nations had longstanding trade relations with the British and hoped they might stop American encroachment on their lands.