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| 1749 |
| | | A French official travels down the Ohio valley, placing markers to claim it for France | |
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| 1751 |
| | | Robert Clive prevails over the French after holding out during the seven-week siege of Arcot in southern India | |
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| 1752 |
| | | The French seize or evict every English-speaking trader in the region of the upper Ohio | |
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| 1753 |
| | | George Washington undertakes a difficult and ineffectual journey to persuade the French to withdraw from the Ohio valley | |
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| 1754 |
| | | George Washington kills ten French troops at Fort Duquesne, in the first violent clash of the French and Indian war | |
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| 1754 |
| | | The British colonies negotiate with the Iroquois at the Albany Congress, in the face of the French threat in the Ohio valley | |
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| 1755 |
| | | A British force under Edward Braddock lands in America to provide support against the French in the Ohio valley | |
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| 1755 |
| | | The army led by Edward Braddock and George Washington is ambushed at Fort Duquesne and Braddock is killed | |
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| 1756 |
| | | The French in America, under the marquis of Montcalm, begin two highly successful years of campaigning against the British | |
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| 1756 |
| | | In what becomes known as the Diplomatic Revolution, two of Europe's long-standing rivals - France and Austria - sign a treaty of alliance | |
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