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Sixty Years' War
Struggle for control of the Great Lakes region of North America (1754–1815) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sixty Years' War (French: Guerre de Soixante Ans; 1754–1815) was a military struggle for control of the North American Great Lakes region, including Lake Champlain and Lake George,[1] encompassing a number of wars over multiple generations. The conflicts involved the British Empire, the French colonial empire, the United States, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The term Sixty Years' War is used by academic historians to provide a framework for viewing this era as a whole, rather than as isolated events.[2][3]
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Part of the American Indian Wars and the Second Hundred Years War | ||||||||
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1754–1763![]() ![]() 1763–1766 Warriors from numerous American Indian tribes | Various Native tribes | ||||||
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1785–1795 Northwestern Confederacy ![]() ![]() |
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1812–1815![]() ![]() ![]() Tecumseh's Confederacy Six Nations |
1812–1815![]() ![]() Cherokee Chickasaw Seneca |
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