HISTORY 7A Lecture Notes - Aristocracy, Highland Clearances, Sugar Act
24 Oct 2013
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The seven years war and the dissolution of the british empire, 1754-1776. Evangeline" by longfellow best selling poem in america written in 1847. Fictional character but representative of people deported from acadia. Remained a strong symbol in acadian culture (both in louisiana and nova scotia) Fiction and reality can come together: the seven years war as a watershed: a colonial war with european (and. War begins in north america; a lot of the fighting was centered in north. Both fight each other trying to exhaust resources and political will to keep fighting; afterwards a treaty would balance out the fighting. Brings european style warfare to america: uniforms, ranks, numbers of troops they were able to raise were much larger than what the colonial raids had ever seen before, the expulsion of france and its consequences. The war starts off going very badly for the british. Part of the reason is because of the disorganization of the british.
