French and Indian War

May 28, 1754 – October 7, 1763

Result British victory

Britain, its American colonies and Native allies fought France, New France and its Indigenous allies in North America. Britain won.

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Battles 15

May 28, 1754

Battle of Jumonville Glen British victory Between present-day Hopwood and Farmington, Pennsylvania George Washington, Tanacharison, Joseph Coulon de Jumonville

July 3, 1754

Battle of Fort Necessity French and Indian victory Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania, British America George Washington, Louis Coulon de Villiers, James Mackay

May 1755 – July 1755

Braddock Expedition French and Indian victory Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio Country George Washington, Thomas Gage, Edward Braddock

June 16, 1755

Battle of Fort Beauséjour British victory Near present-day Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada Robert Monckton, Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor

July 9, 1755

Battle of the Monongahela French and Indian victory near present-day Braddock, Pennsylvania George Washington, Thomas Gage, Edward Braddock

September 8, 1755

Battle of Lake George Anglo-Haudenosaunee victory Lake George, New York Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau, Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre

March 27, 1756

Battle of Fort Bull French victory present-day Rome, New York, then a frontier between Canada, New France and the Province of New York Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry

August 14, 1756

Battle of Fort Oswego French victory Fort Oswego, present-day Oswego, New York Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

August 3–9, 1757

Siege of Fort William Henry French and Indian victory Fort William Henry, New York Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Charles Michel de Langlade, George Monro

June 8 – July 26, 1758

Siege of Louisbourg (1758) British victory Louisbourg, Île-Royale, French Canada Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, James Wolfe, Edward Boscawen

July 8, 1758

Battle of Carillon French victory near Fort Carillon, present-day Ticonderoga, New York Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, François Gaston de Lévis, James Abercrombie

September 13, 1758

Battle of Fort Duquesne French victory Fort Duquesne, site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery, James Grant, John Forbes

July 27, 1759

Battle of Ticonderoga (1759) British victory Fort Carillon, near present-day Ticonderoga, New York Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, François-Charles de Bourlamaque, Richard Montgomery

July 31, 1759

Battle of Beauport French victory Beauport, Canada, New France Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, James Wolfe

September 15, 1762

Battle of Signal Hill British victory St. John's, Newfoundland William Amherst, Guillaume de Bellecombe