French and Indian War

in a sentence

The new law, the first British attempt to tax Americans directly, had been passed by Parliament to help pay for the cost of the French and Indian War and to meet the expense of maintaining a colonial military force to prevent Indian wars.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Howe, who had served in America during the Seven Years' War—or the French and Indian War, as it was known in America—was convinced the "insurgents" were few in number in comparison to those loyal to the Crown.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

Gates, a former British officer, was an affable, plain-faced man who, like Washington, had served during the French and Indian War on the disastrous Braddock expedition.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Lieutenant Fitch was one of a number of veterans of the French and Indian War, an easygoing Norwich, Connecticut, farmer and the father of eight children.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

Eighteen years earlier, during the French and Indian War, an older brother, Brigadier George Augustus, Viscount Howe, one of the outstanding British soldiers of the time, had been killed at Ticonderoga.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Only here and there might an old regimental coat be seen, something left over from the French and Indian War.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

A former British officer and veteran of the French and Indian War, Lee, like Washington, had fought in the ill-fated Braddock campaign and later settled in Virginia.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

In striking contrast to Lee was Major General Artemus Ward, a heavy-set, pious-looking Massachusetts farmer, storekeeper, justice of the peace, and veteran of the French and Indian War, who had had overall command of the siege of Boston prior to Washington's arrival.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

Grant, a grossly fat, highly opinionated Scot, who had served in the French and Indian War, had an extremely low opinion of Americans.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

The oldest, George Augustus Lord Howe, had fought and died in America in the French and Indian War and was remembered in New England as one of the bravest, best-loved British officers of the time.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

As a heroic young lieutenant colonel in the French and Indian War, he had led a detachment of light infantry up the steep embankments of Quebec in the first light of dawn to make way for the army of General James Wolfe to defeat the French under Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

Montresor, too, had served in the French and Indian War, in the Braddock campaign and at Wolfe's siege of Quebec.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

Built by the French at the start of the French and Indian War in 1755, the limestone fort had been taken by the British in 1759, then by the Americans in May of 1775.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005