The Boston Globe, March 15th, 2000
Historians now recognize the French and Indian War as not merely some isolated frontier conflict, memorable as the background for the historical novels of James Fenimore Cooper, but as the event that created the conditions for the American Revolution. In its guise as the North American component of the Seven Years' War - the first global conflict, waged also in Europe, in India, and at sea - that frontier war also weakened the power of the European empire-states. The argument is that defeat of the French in Canada freed the English- speaking colonies from dependence on Britain for military sec...
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