Examines how the French and Indian War of the mid-eighteenth century had a definitive impact on history, tracing how it served to overturn the balance of power on two continents and laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.

Includes maps of: Native Peoples and European Empires, c. 1750-1763; Kittanning, 1756; George Mercer's Map of Ohio Company Lands; Washington's Map of the Ohio River Region, 1754; Western Theater of Operations, 1754-1760 - Pennsylvania-Virginia Frontier to the Great Lakes; Stobo's Map of Fort Duquesne; Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Islands, 1754-1758; Attaques Des Forts de Chouaguen [Oswego]; Fort Carillon; British and French Dominions in North America, 1755; [New France], 1720; Plan of the Island of Gorce, 1758; Survey of the Environs of Fort Pitt; Northern Theater of Operations, 1754-1760 - New York, New England, New France, and the Lake Champlain-Richelieu River Corridor; Plan of Environs, Fort [Bedford], and Encampments of Raystown, 1758; Quebec and Vicinity, 1759; Caribbean Operations, 1759-1762; Sketch of the Fort at Michilimackinac, 1766; Cantonment of the British Forces in North America, October 11, 1765.

The end of a long peace -- La guerre sauvage -- Turning point -- Conquests and consequences.