Why did the British and the French go to war in 1754?

Answer 1

To control the lucrative trade with Indians in North America.

Answer 2

The war was a continuation of a conflict that had started between Britain and Spain much earlier.

OCTOBER 19th

On this day in history in 1739, broke out The War of Jenkins’ Ear.
Hostility between Britain and Spain had been building up during the early eighteenth century. The Spaniards disliked the British trading with their colonies in the Americas and thought that the British were stealing their trade routes and hoping to take over the colonies. The British also feared that the Spaniards envied their colonies in North America and the West Indies.

Various sea battles and minor skirmishes took place but British Prime Minister, Walpole defied public opinion which cried out for war with Spain. In 1739, a British sea captain, Robert Jenkins produced before the House of Commons his own ear, preserved in a jar of spirit, which he claimed had been cut off by a dastardly Spaniard attempting to take his vessel.

The House was enraged and Walpole was obliged to declare war on Spain. The news of the outbreak of war was met with public rejoicing. Walpole said sadly “They are ringing their bells now, they will be wringing their hands soon!”

Answer 3

There was no war between the British and French, all I could find was is this
French troops rout a force of Virginia frontiersmen building a fort at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers April 17, defeating a small British colonial expeditionary force led by George Washington (see 1753). Now 22, Colonel Washington subsequently ambushes a small unit of Frenchmen under the command of Ensign Joseph de Jumonville, who is wounded but approaches Washington with an official-looking document. Washington looks over his shoulder to summon his translator, whereupon the Iroquois "Half King" Tanaghrisson who has guided the Virginians cries, "Tu n'est pas encore mort, mon père" ("Thou are not yet dead, my father") and bashes in Jumonville's skull with a hatchet (he reaches into the skull, takes out a handful of brains, and washes his hands in the gore). Jumonville's document turns out to be an ultimatum to the British to keep out of the Ohio country, that being the property of "His Most Christian Majesty, Louis XV"). The French and their Indian allies defeat Washington again July 3 near a stockade called Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley, wiping out a third of his Virginia Regiment; they force him to surrender and erect Fort Duquesne at the head of the Ohio River, hoping to confine the British to the area east of the Appalachians while they build a Gallic empire in the lands to the west (see Braddock, 1755).

You can look at the calendar of events of 1794 and see for yourself

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