The French and Indian War 

My paternal ancestors were Native Americans in Ohio and Michigan. They were on the French side.

That's so cool/ so sad

@@emckeon9766 He was interesting. He is also credited with discovering the first coal in Pennsylvania after also serving in the PA militia in the Revolution. His grandson moved to Wisconsin in the 1840's and I am descended from him.

My grandfather was digging a foxhole when a German wandered into his location. My grandfather confidently pointed a shovel at the armed German. The bluff worked and I’m alive today!!! Don’t question it!!! Definitely appreciate it!!

@@danielcurtis1434 So many "what if"s in everyone's lives. My Dad was on patrol in Luxembourg with 3 others when they were ambushed by Germans. The other 3 died and he was left for dead because he had a bullet hole in his forehead. Turns out, he was just a little shorter than the others and the bullet ricocheted off his forehead into his helmet. Even a centimeter lower and there would be no Dad and thus no me. He almost lost his toes to frostbite from laying unconscious overnight and spent the last 5 months of the war on light duty working the gas pumps in a motor pool because he couldn't walk well.

As an American History teacher I can tell you why :) It's not very important for teaching students how to think critically about making political or economic decisions by using past examples (the point of Social Studies). It IS important for providing context to the Revolutionary War, but that's all it is; context. Public Education in the US with regards to Social Studies is about using History to teach lessons that apply to the present. So, you focus on things like making voting decisions, detecting right from wrong when the crowd gets uppity (Holocaust, Jim Crow, Japanese-American Internment, etc.), examining and debating the limits of law (amendments, constitution, civil rights, the voting process, etc), the effects and dangers of war both for those that choose to serve in the military and those that do not as well as how much war is a catalyst for change. This is just a super abridged list of the connections that Social Studies teachers in the US SHOULD be attempting to create for their students. Keep in mind as well that teachers come in different levels of qualified for the things I listed above and have differing levels of competence for accomplishing the task of teaching students how to think critically (the point of Historical examination with regards to public school). For instance, I got my degree and teaching license in Secondary Education (Secondary is Gr 6-12) with a focus on History. So, I was trained and educated in that realm and given the tools to make that goal of critical thinking and historical connection a thing. A lot of my colleagues are businesspeople, engineers, scientists, etc that had degrees in other fields outside of Education and just received a teaching license. They didn't go through years focused on adolescent psychology, teaching methods, etc. I still respect them and love working with them, it's just the nature of the beast with public education in the US. We need bodies in classrooms because nobody wants to be a teacher for a lot of good reasons. The thing about teenagers though is that they don't give a flying rat's furry behind about what I just said, because they A: don't suffer the consequences of society yet, and B: are raging hormonal monsters that have other priorities than old dusty dead people. Also, there is some serious discrepancy between textbooks and curriculum depending on the state you may live in. Check out "Daughters of the Confederacy" for more information on textbook tampering and influence. Somebody who was educated in Mississippi for instance will have been taught a very different US history to what was taught in Massachusetts for example.

Teaching crt and wokeness instead

@@tomhenry897 Umm you need to turn Fox news off. Nobody teaches CRT except for University level law professors in year 3. It has nothing to do with grade-school civics. And nobody is allowed to push politics in a classroom or even discuss it in a debate setting. If you think teaching Civil Rights and racism/slavery is a bad thing then... idk bro you might be the problem.

Because it wasn't actually a war. It was a minor (very minor) theatre of the Seven Years' War and not a separate and unrelated conflict. Only in the US does anyone use the term "French and Indian War".

Don't feel too bad. The history of the USA isn't worth studying. 😁

Thank you!

Sobering that the French would have absolutely won this war, were it not for the fact that they ran out of money, and lack of popular support for the war, at home, completely dried up any enthusiasm for continuing it.

You are a life saver, thank you for the timestamps!

@@jacob4920 The French absolutely had the resources to win, Louis XV just preferred to try and gain territory in europe instead and neglected New France.

Speaking of American tax popularity; City abortion funding saves city school tax, so much so that cities can then fund country abortions as well, all without answering to country voters.

Just wait until he starts getting to some of the South and Central American wars. For example, a war was eventually started over a hotly contested World Cup qualifying match between Nicaragua and El Salvador.

@@alan6832 Thank you for this rant, which nobody here asked for, and that has absolutely nothing to do with OP's original comment. I award you no points... and may God have mercy on your soul.

@@jacob4920 Don't be naive, people like him go straight to hell, same as people who talk during movies in cinema.

Hmmm.... I'm Canadian and we, or at least I, learned a great deal about our North American history in high school. Could it be that the Canadian curriculum is better than that of the United States? 🤔 Say it ain't so! 🤣🤣

It's more than 1/3. 4.8 millions of Québécois have 1 ou more acadian ancestors 1900 took refuge in Qc 1755-1762 1300 came from the locations where they were deported (us colonies, France) 1763-1775

Je suis Acadien.

@@josephthibeault9919 Thibault est un bon nom acadien!

We have a local filmmaker and musician named Zachary Richard who did a multipart documentary on the Acadians.He went to Maine and was able to find some of his relatives

And once in Louisiana 'Acadian' became 'Cajun'

I saw that movie on Hulu. Put it in my list. Halfway through a book on the subject and Hulu removed it🤬🤬😂

I think Last of the Mohicans is the only mainstream film to actually address the conflict of the French and Indian War. Excellent film. Boring Novel.

"Just stay alive! I WILL FIND YOU!!!!" Jesus what a scene!!

World War Zero? 😂

Native Americans call "first contact" with European colonizers as the first world war. Multiple native American tribes from north and south america fighting European colonial powers. (Spanish, Dutch, French, English and Russia)

@@bizhiwnamadabi3901 But that did not include ant conflict in Africa or Asia. So not a WORLD War

@@archstanton6102 it still is technically a world war. That side of that planet has been fighting and destroying itself since the last age and they came over here with that bullshit destroying our world and our way of life. Its still half of the world that came here to fight us and try kill all of us but failed and lost some important wars and lost some meaningless wars then book 7 years war kicks off then they call it a world war. Go ask your historians, archeologists and scientists. Even your countries top scientists agree with my statement as well. It would be called a world war because they agreed on that it was the 1st n jus because your side kept losing the important battles. You guys stopped calling it a world war. Back in the day they even called a world war. Not much people are lucky to have that long of a reach into history since everyone believes what the lies they told ya

In reality this war was really the First World War. Fought on three continents by the major world powers with their indigenous allies on the aforementioned three continent's with all the military forces available.

I was glad to see this comment. I lived in Oswego, Illinois for a while and we have the same pronunciation.

I have family in Unadilla. Dude is right

The expulsion of the Acadians is a very important topic rarely taught outside of Louisiana in the US.

Most people who argue that the colonists should have been grateful to chip in for the costs of the war via taxes are unaware 1) of the fact that the colonists mostly mounted their own defense for the first several years of the war and 2) that even after the British regulars were finally sent to North America, the colonials were STILL sending militia to fight against regular French forces or defend colonial settlements. As much as the issue of taxation, the closing of the Ohio Valley to colonial settlement by the British once they were in charge (the very same issue that had started the war) was a major cause for disruption among the colonists. To turn the narrative on its head, the colonists were of the opinion that they had borne the brunt of the assault in North America on their own, so they should get the opportunity to occupy the land they had fought to win.

There were many 'global conflicts' involving the North American theater, what made this one different was that it became the main focus of the entire global war when beforehand the theater was just seen as an unimportant sidepiece.

Yep, that's why the Proclamation of 1763 hit so hard. Plus the Quebec Act which sought to appease all of the French that had just been incorporated into the British Empire, all the while not supporting their own English population to the same degree.

I love North American settlement history

@@noahmead4652 Same here,I've read a couple of books on the topic;i like American history in general,except the time when it was inhabited by Aztecs,Maya etc.,they were too brutal n so i am not into it.

Well that maybe true. But what I think a lot of people ignore is thats your fault more than it was the teachers. I had a teacher who literally just handed out study guides and would usually say read these pages, test on Friday. And then another one who lectured everyday. Soo many kids struggled...because they didn't want to read the book, or take notes during the lectures. I mean I love history so I got As in both their classes. No lie, I literally taught the one world geology class my senior year. which unintentionally sparked a desire for me to become a history teacher myself. Life's weird like that

No it’s the schools fault for censoring what is being taught

Which is the whole problem here. Enrolls yourself in history courses at a real academic institution. There are errors in this video and on other RU-vid videos that are significantly misleading.

@@nicholascorbett1256 w. I hate that “woah is me I wasn’t taught this” mf do research on your own then wtf

@@themaskedman221 right they have interns search stuff on Wikipedia and present as fact. Like how he said Benjamin Franklin was a British spy because they saw that rumor online

I basically learned the same thing here in the States. Though, maybe a little more, IIRR. I think the problem now a days are there's so much history to teach, you have to really hit only the bare high lights if you want to teach it in a school setting. IMO, they should do this only for the early years, and later, in Jr, High and High school, they should really dig into spacific time periods, and lay it all out, the good, bad, and ugly.

Umm everybody talks about it like that. Who do you listen to that doesn't? Certainly not any historian or reputable youtuber.

@@mvlevitch1745 Well, this reputable RU-vidr just made a video talking about it in exactly that capacity. So...

We were a side show, the carribian was more important then America

The numbers involved are very small.

The war was over before it started. British NA 1m ppl. New France 80k. There was no way France was winning in NA with a population base that couldn’t even support a field army. The French were vastly superior in traversing and fighting in NA as well as garner native support but they didn’t have the industrial base in the colonies to supply them

Yeah, its crazy that now we pay around a 15-20% income tax. When, I believe, the colonists were upset about a 3%. Taxation without representation was a big issue too.

It's actually just one of the many aspects on a RU-vid video. I don't think Simon intended the video to cover all the dynamics involved by making a 10hr 10 part video. Ignorant.

Yeah here in Iceland when I learned about the Seven Years War we learned about the war in the Americas basically as Britain and native allies vs France and native allies. We mainly learned about the European aspect as it had more impact on my nation.

@@oligultonn do you say your name exactly how it’s spelled?

@@brendonrozboril1826 my real name is Ólafur and it's said like "Ohlaafuhr" and the r is rolled.

That’s literally straight up wrong, I learned about the Euro side, never the North American side, and guess what? I live in North America.

You now understand why People from Québec speaks French. It's related to the French and Indian War

"history," remember it's just barely over 200 years old, barely out of diapers in the grand scheme of things. 😁

⁠@@justinyates1154sort of important considering it’s closer to the present

There's quite a bit on Quebec history though a lot of it is told under a Canadian (English) perspective that paints the French in a much different light (ie the common "all colonialism = bad, warcrimes, genocide") than how the French sources tell it. Yes there were bad things but the French treated the Natives far better than the English and Spanish did and worked together in partnership with most of the Native Nations. The key to the French surviving the first north american winters was with Native help.

Quebecer here. If you are interested in how we still speak French, there are two main reasons. First one is the Quebec Act. When the the 13 colonies started to talk of independence, Britain passed the Quebec Act which gave the colony the fredom of religion and language amounts other thing. The British new it would be a good way to stop Quebec in joining the Americain Independence War. Quebec still hadn’t bounced back from the conquest et wasn’t that interested in joining. The other more contemporary law is call Quebec’s law 101. I think it was established sometime in the 20e century. Every Quebecer knows it. It is the law that regulates the use of the French language in the province. It give us radio quotas for French music, requires all shop/restaurants to have French signs (hence why KFC is called PFK in Quebec). It even gives rules on who can attend English schools.

George Pickett almost getting a war with great Britain in the 1850s

Wow never knew that

My paternal ancestors were the natives who burned Detroit to the ground twice during that war when it was nothing more than a fort.

@@matthewdaley746 I know I like pointing out history's little inconsistencies. Like the Holy Roman Empire which wasn't holy Roman or an empire.

Ah yes like the hundred years war that was 127 years war

@@hod2116 yes historians are bad at naming things.

My 5th great uncle, member and a President of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas McKean, Scotsman was also 6'2" and solidly built. Our country came from hearty stock

It lost them the thirteen colonies, won them all of Canada, and secured India as theirs as well. Even with the loss of the thirteen colonies it was a huge success that created the worlds most powerful empire. It also shaped the world order more or less up to the First World War (you could say the Napoleonic wars but those really just cemented that dynamic for another century). It was basically a war of global hegemony and Britain came out on top.

Yes it is an archive at the Quebec city

He wasn't fighting with the British. He was British.

@@hachwarwickshire292 you get my point though

I mean it's still likely that English would be a fairly big language. French isn't "similar to what Dutch is today" but yeah North America would be pretty French

check drachinfel stuff for that

Have you seen Drachinifel's two part on RU-vid? He had me laughing at the absurdity.

@@IanSinclair77 I know that vid and it f*cking hilarious, but did Symon?

@@thomasbaker6563 Watched it several times and listened even more, but it'll be smashing if Symon will make a vid on it of his own.

@@user-ly6pl5ot9m it would be entertaining in the brain blaze style IMHO

France still retains two, not just one: Miquelon and St. Pierre. I admit to being curious as all heck! I noticed them many years ago looking at my Grandfather's National Geographic atlas, but was researching other subjects and am now intent about finding out more before climate transformation drowns them?