The French and Indian War

These is a picture, showing a representation of the French and Indian War.

The French and Indian war isn’t exactly what we think. These war was not between the French and the Indians, it was between and the French that allied with the Indians, and the British. This war was also known as “the seven year war.” This war lasted from 1754 to 1763.

     
       This war began because both, French and Indians claimed not to move from the territory they were using, for fur trade. In 1750 the French soldiers captured many English trading points, and they also built fort Duquesne.  Later in 1754 George Washington and a small force of Virginia militiamen tried to take over that same fort, hoping to lead the French out of their territory, although when he got there he realized the fort was too strong to capture it. Knowing that, he built the fort necessity, he said that if he could not take over fort Duquesne, we would contest their presence with a new fort.

     On July 3, 1754 a combined army of French and Indians took over fort necessity marking these as the beginning of the French and Indian war in the new world. Initially, the British suffered many lost, between 1756-1757, the French destroyed forts on Lake Ontario and Lake George. Without knowing what to do, the British found a military solution to the problem, they stopped the shipping’s from France to The new world. These weekend the French, because they didn’t have more weapons, munitions, and supplies. Besides, they couldn’t keep allied with the Indians, because know that the shipping stopped, they didn’t have anything to offer the Indians for their help. The British captured Quebec in 1759 and Montreal in 1760.

In 1763, the treaty of Paris was signed, the British proclaimed themselves with the victory.

John Adams Before The Revolution

John Adams was born in october 30,1735 and died on july 4, 1826. He was a statesman , considered one of the most important founding fathers of the united states, he sipported republicanism, and was the second president of the united states of America.

Stamp Act

       In 1765, John Adams raised to prominence, as an opponent to the Stamp Act imposed by the British Parliament. That year, he wrote four anonymous letters to the Boston Gazette, explaining that the negligence they showed to the Stamp Act was based on the same thoughts that their ancestors had, when first coming to America. He also stated that by passing The Stamp Act, two major rights that were supposedly given to all English men, were being violated. Those rights were:

      

     1._Rights to be taxed only by consent.

     2._Right to be tried only by a jury of one's peers.

        In December of 1765, he delivered a speech to the governor and to the council, in which he proclaimed the stamp Act invalid to Massachusetts.

 Boston Massacre.

      

      In 1770, during a street confrontation, English soldiers killed five civilians, these is what we know as the Boston Massacre. The colonial people wanted to present legal charges against the soldiers, but they didn’t have no one to represent theme. John Adams was asked for the job, he accepted, although he knew that his reputation could be damaged, he said one of his most famous quotes "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." Meaning that he had to do what was right, no matter what. Six of the soldiers were acquitted, and the two who had fired directly into the crow were accused of murder.

     

      Even Though John Adams made an outstanding job, representing the colonial people, the payment he received was very minimum, he got 18 guineas in total, 10 before starting the job, and the other 8 were given consequently as the case was advancing. These is what he said after finishing the job "all the pecuniary Reward I ever had for fourteen or fifteen days labor, in the most exhausting and fatiguing Causes I ever tried." Later on it was confirmed n his diary that these was the only payment he received by his effort.