The war began in 1754, when a young Virginia militia officer named George Washington engaged in a skirmish with a party of French soldiers, and it ended six years later when the governor-general of New France surrendered to a British army at Montreal. The French and Indian War was the climactic struggle between Great Britain and France for imperial control of North America. This Narrative should be followed by the Wolfe at Quebec and the Peace of 1763 Narrative. Prior to reading this Narrative, students should read the Albany Plan of Union Narrative.
