Previously in this series: Introduction. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5.
Time constraints require me to spend only one week on the French and Indian War itself.
Why so little time? As I see it, a U. S. child mainly needs to know two things about the French and Indian War:
- that it gave the colonists experienced soldiers and officers who would later lead the Revolution
- that England tried to pay the war costs by enforcing unpopular taxes on the colonists.
The latter point will be covered in the next section.
The former point will be covered in the sole lengthy reading for the week, drawn from Genevieve Foster's George Washington's World, which we began in Part 5. The second section is entitled "When George Washington Was A Soldier," and describes the war briefly from his vantage point. It also touches on what was going on worldwide; we hear of how things were in England and in France, as well as in Catherine's Russia, and we also hear about other personages such as Goethe ("Goethe Sees Both Sides.")
Seton's Chapter 10, "The French and British Struggle," is also read for a more textbooky look at the same material.
Next: "Setup of the American Revolution."
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