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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and spread to become Europe's Seven Years' War and Asia's Third Carnatic War. The French and British in North America allied their respective Native American allies to wage the final contest for control over the North American continent. Battles spread to include all of the British colonies, with Pennsylvania and Virginia playing important roles. |
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At the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French lost Canada to Great Britain, as well as its territories east of the Mississippi River. Spain relinquished Florida to the British in exchange for keeping the territories west of the Mississippi that France had ceded to them secretly the year before. |
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Names of the colonial militiamen who served in the French and Indian War may appear in rosters and muster rolls printed in colonial and town histories for New England and New York. |
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These important publications list names of soldiers:
Andrews, Frank DeWitte, comp. Connecticut Soldiers in the French and Indian War. Vineland, N.J.: By the compiler, 1923. |
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Chapin, Howard Miller. Rhode Island in the Colonial Wars. A List of Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors in the French and Indian Wars, 1755-1762. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1918. |
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Wehmann, Howard H., comp. A Guide to Pre-federal Records in the National Archives. Revised by Benjamin L. De Whitt. Washington, D.C.: NARA, 1989. |
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On the Internet a list of the French soldiers who served in the French and Indian War appears at http://web.syr.edu/~laroux. |
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