Why did France abd Britain go to war in 1754?

Answer 1

The first skirmish of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), occurred when a small force under George Washington engaged and defeated a reconnaissance party of French and Indians near Fort Duquesne. Washington erected Fort Necessity at nearby Great Meadows and eventually surrendered to French forces. The dispute was over the boundary between New France - that territory claimed by France east of the Mississippi River- and the seaboard British colonies in America.
The European counterpart to the French and Indian War began officially between France and England on May 15, 1756, when the latter made a formal declaration of war. Actually, fighting had been going on in America for two years. The war involved all the major European powers and was worldwide in scope, but to the colonists it was a struggle against the French for control of North America. The war did not go well for England until the elder William Pitt came to power in 1756. He concentrated on fighting the French and sent badly needed troop reinforcements to North America.
Britain won Canada and the rest of "New France" in the Treaty of Paris 1763.

During the French and Indian War in 1755, British General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded when he and his force of British troops and colonial militia were caught in a French and Indian ambush. Braddock had just crossed the Monongahela River on his way to attack Fort Duquesne, on the site of what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Braddock died July 13, 1755, and George Washington assumed command of the retreating army.

Answer 2

French and Indian War (1754-1763), the last of four North American wars waged from 1689 to 1763 between the British and the French. In these struggles, each country fought for control of the continent with the assistance of Native American and colonial allies. The French and Indian War differed from previous confrontations, however. The earlier wars consisted primarily of skirmishes between small regular units of the European powers aided by local militiamen. The French and Indian War was part of a 'great war for empire,' a determined and eventually successful attempt by the British to attain a dominant position in North America, the West Indies, and the subcontinent of India. Although the French and Indian War began in America, it expanded into Europe as the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), and at the same time into Asia as the Third Carnatic War (see Carnatic Wars). The French and Indian War not only stripped France of its North American empire, it also caused Britain to change its relationship to its colonies, a change that eventually led to the American Revolution.

Answer 3

The French were trying to prevent the British from moving into the Ohio and Mississippi River area over the Appalachian Mountains. The British did not recognize all of it as French Territory, so Virginia sent GW to get the French to remove.
At the same time, France and Britain were growing increasingly hostile in Europe.