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The French presence in the Ohio Valley was the result of French colonization of North America in present-day Pennsylvania.After Cartier and Champlain's expeditions, France succeeded in establishing relations with the Native American tribes and colonizing the future cities of Montreal and Quebec.
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
The Ohio Country, showing present-day U.S. state boundaries. The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans.
The French withdrew from Fort Duquesne and left the British in control of the Ohio River Valley. [67] The great French fortress at Louisbourg in Nova Scotia was captured after a siege. [68] A British expedition sent to invade Canada was repulsed by the French at the Battle of Carillon in July 1758.
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
The French in the Mississippi Valley (University of Illinois Press, 1965) McDermott, John F., ed. Frenchmen and French ways in the Mississippi Valley (1969) Marshall, Bill,ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 Vol 2005) Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada -A Cultural History (2000). 340 pp.
Much of 18th century Trans-Appalachia, especially the Ohio River Valley, was defined by conflict over territory between the British, French, and Native Americans. Although the Proclamation of 1763 after the Seven Years War prohibited further settlement, significant migration to the region continued throughout the 1760s and 1770s. [ 4 ]
At the outset, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 defined the jurisdictional limits of the British territories of North America, limiting British colonial expansion on the continent. What remained of the Royal Province of New France east of the Great Lakes and the Ottawa River , and south of Rupert's Land , was reorganised under the name "Quebec."