Events mark 250th anniversary of French and Indian War

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Sunday, March 13, 2005 | Richard Robbins

[Willie Green]

This spring and summer will bring a full slate of events keyed to the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War.

[Ciexyz]

They're a year late.

Au contraire, they started this last year, and it will continue for at least six more years to coincide with the end of the war. (Can't remember the date of the peace conference, but in Europe they called this the "Seven Years War".)

[aspiring.hillbilly]

That was only one day of battle, not a whole war...

[Verginius Rufus]

France won the war--the treaty of Tilsit between France and Prussia in 1807 was a humiliation for Prussia (which lost almost half of its territory and had to pay large indemnities to France).

That was nearly 200 years ago. Sweden, too, was once a military power.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Hey...I live near there too!!! No. Huntingdon, near what used to be Fort Waltour. Small world :)

[Cronos]

You denigrate the French a bit too much -- remember that under Louis the Sun King they were a major power in Europe while under Napoleon they came close to forming a Europe-wide empire -- even up to defeating the UK. Whatever be their politics now, I see no point in historical condemnation

[Cronos]

The frogs didnt do so hot years later in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 either, come to think of it they are on a centuries long losing streak...

You kind of forget their victories under Napoleon and what happened in 1848. YEs, since then they have been in decline.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Well the Napoleon campaigns culminated in the horrendous trek out of Russia where General Winter ravaged the French troops...I hardly call that a victorious end to Napoleon's conquests

[Cronos]

Well the Napoleon campaigns culminated in the horrendous trek out of Russia where General Winter ravaged the French troops...I hardly call that a victorious end to Napoleon's conquests

Weell, he won many battles before and after that -- and if he hadn't turned on Russia, he would have created a French Empire. There wouldn't have been a WWI -- say, that is speculation,but has anyone written a book based on that supposition?

[aspiring.hillbilly]

I believe WWI was spawned by the frogs loss of the Alsass Loraine in the Franco-Prussan war of 1870 and the French defeat and their subsequent baiting of the Germans to recover the lost pride of a generation ago...