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  2. Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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    In the present-day United States, the conflict is known as the French and Indian War (1754–1763). In English-speaking Canada—the balance of Britain's former North American colonies—it is called the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). In French-speaking Canada, it is known as La guerre de la Conquête (the War of the Conquest).

  3. Treaty of Paris (1763) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. Treaty ending the Seven Years' War Not to be confused with Treaty of Paris (1783), the treaty that ended the American Revolution. For other treaties of Paris, see Treaty of Paris (disambiguation). Treaty of Paris (1763) The combatants of the Seven Years' War as shown before the outbreak ...

  4. The Rawls Course - Wikipedia

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    The Rawls Course was designed by Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design, Inc., Traverse City, Michigan.Starting from just a cotton field, the course was created to imitate the land east and south of Lubbock, where the Great Plains suddenly begin falling into the valleys and canyons that lead to the Caprock region.

  5. Indian Reserve (1763) - Wikipedia

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    "Indian Reserve" is a historical term for the largely uncolonized land in North America that was claimed by France, ceded to Great Britain through the Treaty of Paris (1763) at the end of the Seven Years' War—also known as the French and Indian War—and set aside for the First Nations in the Royal Proclamation of 1763.

  6. Territorial evolution of North America since 1763 - Wikipedia

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    February 10, 1763. The 1763 Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.It was signed by Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. . Preferring to keep Guadeloupe, France gave up Canada and all of its claims to territory east of the Mississippi River to

  7. Royal Proclamation of 1763 - Wikipedia

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    George Washington was given 20,000 acres (81 km 2) of land in the Ohio region for his services in the French and Indian War. In 1770, Washington took the lead in securing the rights of himself and his old soldiers in the French War, advancing money to pay expenses for the common cause and using his influence in the proper quarters.

  8. The incredible story of how POWs played golf at the ‘Great ...

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    Dementia set in for some prisoners, who were then removed by guards and later reported to have “died of pneumonia,” wrote John Strege in his 2005 book on golf during the conflict, “When War ...

  9. French and Indian War - Wikipedia

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    "Seven Years" refers to events in Europe, from the official declaration of war in 1756—two years after the French and Indian War had started—to the signing of the peace treaty in 1763. The French and Indian War in America, by contrast, was largely concluded in six years from the Battle of Jumonville Glen in 1754 to the capture of Montreal ...