CIAO A TUTTI.
My REAL name is Marco. I am 47, married, 2 kids and I live in Italy.
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,189220.0.html
Always loved THE LAST OF THE MOHICAN' S book and movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMZtQhhS14w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7tiKM4fxY1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42MAk4_DBFc
.....also adored NORTHWEST PASSAGE (playing as a kid to be a Rogers Ranger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G4AriFcuQw
So I made 1755 Old Frontier mod for Warband 1.153 (eventually running for 1.143/1.134 )
OFFICIAL TW POLL AND VOTING RESULT Total Members Voted: 234
Voting closed: May 22, 2011, 11:54:05 AM
Which 2 mods that change both MP and SP are your favourite?
1755 Old Frontier
102 (25.9%)
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DOWNLOAD V. 3.2
http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=2355
...or at NEXUS for a faster dwld:
http://mountandblade.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2355
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It is a FRENCH INDIAN WAR MOD (SP&MP). Includes Native Americans, Great Britain, France, Spain and any kind of frontier OUTLAWS
PLS BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP, VISIT THIS LINK (many thx to author, TEI !)
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,131274.0.html
TO GET ANSWERS OR HELP, PLS:
-VOTE IN THE POLL
-POST HERE INTRODUCING YOURSELF
IMAGES FOR SUPPORTERS:
click up above on QUOTE button to see pics CODES instead of pics as images
ps to see the code you have to click on "QUOTE", like if you wanted to answer to me, ok?
-1 right click on the "supporter " image code that you like the most and copy it on your pc 2. Go to your profil info
3. then go to modify profile
4. choose forum profile
5. paste it to the signature column the new code URL for forums that you chose.
STILL SOME PROBLEMS AND BUGS. THIS MOD IS STILL IN PROGRESS, SO PLEASE BE PATIENT.
1755 NEW & OLD videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rngIplSuwTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IaS1DbG-eY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-i3kZ4-wU4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hxrItcJTumw
KNOWN BUGS:
1 villages and castles belong to player as soon as you start game. It is kind of fun actually since I can enter a fort, chose "manage" and take all troops in there that i want, or give to it mine. But smth is wrong.
FIXED WITH 1755 V.2.5 PATCH. YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD IT AND APPLY IT.
2 ................
3.................
[/color]"URGENT!!!" -AN EXPERT IN MODULE_PYTON USE IS STILL NEEDED. SEE UP ABOVE HOW TO CONTACT GABRILDURO.
IN GAME CHARACTERS:
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THE GABRILDURO' S BUNCH:
ALAN DE SOISON
AULDMAN
BEARSKULL21
CRUMBS (the invisible but very giving member!!),
LEADTAIL
MICHAEL
POGO
POOMTANG
HISTORY EXPERTS: AULDMAN, BEARSKULL21
SCENES MASTER: CAPTAIN ANTIGONOS
HELPERS: , AJOLIN, KIRIEL, LEN, ABADGAEM. GASTON, RADEZTKY, Cuireach.
TESTERS: corytlh
MY VERY FIRST SUPPORTER AND GOOD FRIEND: ADMIRAL NELSON6262
Schredorz and his team should get full credit for their great Items, textures, animations, etc etc....
We honored him creating a tavern companion with his name: SHREDZORZ. (THX Shredz!!)
I want to thank for their support all people who sent a comment (SEE BELOW) and helped me in some way_
ADMIRAL NELSON6262, CRUMBS (THE GREAT mohican head hunter!!!Thanks friend!!!), BEA1234, COSELETE, KIRIEL, SGCODE, IDIBIL AND ALL FANS AND FRIENDS. OUR WIVES AND KIDS.
And all M&B and WB modders for the work they made and the fun they gave to all of us. ......you can understand their efforts only becoming a modder.
In particular AGE OF FALSE INNOCENCE which made the base of this mod, MORGH'S MOD TOOLS (THAT EVERYBODY USE AND DO NOT GIVE CREDIT!),Dejawolf, Talak, and Faradon for the use of their OSP, Struggle for Bermia, Renaissance, Kill the infidel, Blood and Steel, Star wars, 1866 greatest western mod, Mesoamerica (Great mod about Hernan Cortez), Russia 1917, TEATRC, Hunt Mod, The blue and the grey (first WESTERN MODE!!!), Rathos for the "bisonshield" model, China battlefield (2nd world war), Hegemony 268 v.960, Flanged from gangs of glasgow,bobthe8th for his great sword, Gingolsfin for great maps, Aquil for dark textures, Smiley Stuff Osp,Yiyang Chen,Rabbit, White,Tei Fix for some crashes ,Yamabusi for wanderful Highlanders and expecially, for issues, help and always beeing supportive, IDIBIL of BRYTENWALDA, the best historical and very complete mod ever. AND THE GREAT -IYI-O-R-T- too!!!!!
I WANT TO DEDICATE THIS TO ALL MY FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS AND PLAYERS.....
BUT OVER ALL OF THEM TO YOU, last_mohican MY FRIEND....I KNOW YOU LL LIKE IT!! HE HE
MAGUA...NOW IS YOUR TURN!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7tiKM4fxY1U
PS. FOLKS, DID YOU NOTICE HOW THEY RELOAD WHILE RUNNING??!!
Quote from: last_mohican on February 08, 2011, 04:31:33 PM <blockquote>thank you my friend!! im honored to have my signature along with yours!
thanks to your mod i will now be watching the movie 2 times a week!! haha thank you!
.......AND A PLAYER CANNOT GET THE ESSENCE OF 1755 IF HE HASN T SEEN THAT GREAT GREAT GREATEST MOVIE!!!
My REAL name is Marco. I am 47, married, 2 kids and I live in Italy.
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,189220.0.html
Always loved THE LAST OF THE MOHICAN' S book and movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMZtQhhS14w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7tiKM4fxY1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42MAk4_DBFc
.....also adored NORTHWEST PASSAGE (playing as a kid to be a Rogers Ranger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G4AriFcuQw
So I made 1755 Old Frontier mod for Warband 1.153 (eventually running for 1.143/1.134 )
OFFICIAL TW POLL AND VOTING RESULT Total Members Voted: 234
Voting closed: May 22, 2011, 11:54:05 AM
Which 2 mods that change both MP and SP are your favourite?
1755 Old Frontier
102 (25.9%)
A Horse Farewell
3 (0.8%)Auto-firing Weapons
1 (0.3%)Battle Time!
17 (4.3%)Better Faction Troops 20 (0%)Blood and Roses
3 (0.8%)Blood and Steel
23 (5.8%)Calradia in Darkness
4 (1%)Combat Animation Enhancement
9 (2.3%)Crusader Banners
2 (0.5%)Custom Banners for Warband
5 (1.3%)Custom Camera Patch
1 (0.3%)Epic Man Sounds Pack
3 (0.8%)Expanded Horizons
4 (1%)Faction Arms Coloured
3 (0.8%)Fixed Weapon Length
4 (1%)Graphical Pack
8 (2%)Heavy Hooves
1 (0.3%)Imperium Graecorum
6 (1.5%)Improved Buildings
4 (1%)Kengeki Gaiden
18 (4.6%)More Metal Sound Mod
14 (3.6%)New Elegante
7 (1.8%)OSP Warband Item Variants
6 (1.5%)Realistic Colors
9 (2.3%)Reworked Armors
2 (0.5%)SoundRound-ing
1 (0.3%)Sounds of Suffering
1 (0.3%)Sowing the Winds
1 (0.3%)Sword of Damocles: Warlords
39 (9.9%)Texture Fiddling0 (0%)The Eagle and the Radiant Cross
40 (10.2%)Thel's Facepack
2 (0.5%)Utrehd's Castle Pack
5 (1.3%)Utrehd's Music Pack
1 (0.3%)Warband Original Animations
3 (0.8%)Warband Realistic Mod
5 (1.3%)WWII: China Battlefield
37 (9.4%)
Total Members Voted: 234
Voting closed: May 22, 2011, 11:54:05 AM
3 (0.8%)Auto-firing Weapons
1 (0.3%)Battle Time!
17 (4.3%)Better Faction Troops 20 (0%)Blood and Roses
3 (0.8%)Blood and Steel
23 (5.8%)Calradia in Darkness
4 (1%)Combat Animation Enhancement
9 (2.3%)Crusader Banners
2 (0.5%)Custom Banners for Warband
5 (1.3%)Custom Camera Patch
1 (0.3%)Epic Man Sounds Pack
3 (0.8%)Expanded Horizons
4 (1%)Faction Arms Coloured
3 (0.8%)Fixed Weapon Length
4 (1%)Graphical Pack
8 (2%)Heavy Hooves
1 (0.3%)Imperium Graecorum
6 (1.5%)Improved Buildings
4 (1%)Kengeki Gaiden
18 (4.6%)More Metal Sound Mod
14 (3.6%)New Elegante
7 (1.8%)OSP Warband Item Variants
6 (1.5%)Realistic Colors
9 (2.3%)Reworked Armors
2 (0.5%)SoundRound-ing
1 (0.3%)Sounds of Suffering
1 (0.3%)Sowing the Winds
1 (0.3%)Sword of Damocles: Warlords
39 (9.9%)Texture Fiddling0 (0%)The Eagle and the Radiant Cross
40 (10.2%)Thel's Facepack
2 (0.5%)Utrehd's Castle Pack
5 (1.3%)Utrehd's Music Pack
1 (0.3%)Warband Original Animations
3 (0.8%)Warband Realistic Mod
5 (1.3%)WWII: China Battlefield
37 (9.4%)
Total Members Voted: 234
Voting closed: May 22, 2011, 11:54:05 AM
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DOWNLOAD V. 3.2
http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=2355
...or at NEXUS for a faster dwld:
http://mountandblade.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2355
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is a FRENCH INDIAN WAR MOD (SP&MP). Includes Native Americans, Great Britain, France, Spain and any kind of frontier OUTLAWS
PLS BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP, VISIT THIS LINK (many thx to author, TEI !)
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,131274.0.html
TO GET ANSWERS OR HELP, PLS:
-VOTE IN THE POLL
-POST HERE INTRODUCING YOURSELF
IMAGES FOR SUPPORTERS:
click up above on QUOTE button to see pics CODES instead of pics as images
ps to see the code you have to click on "QUOTE", like if you wanted to answer to me, ok?
-1 right click on the "supporter " image code that you like the most and copy it on your pc 2. Go to your profil info
3. then go to modify profile
4. choose forum profile
5. paste it to the signature column the new code URL for forums that you chose.
STILL SOME PROBLEMS AND BUGS. THIS MOD IS STILL IN PROGRESS, SO PLEASE BE PATIENT.
1755 NEW & OLD videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rngIplSuwTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IaS1DbG-eY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-i3kZ4-wU4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hxrItcJTumw
KNOWN BUGS:
1 villages and castles belong to player as soon as you start game. It is kind of fun actually since I can enter a fort, chose "manage" and take all troops in there that i want, or give to it mine. But smth is wrong.
FIXED WITH 1755 V.2.5 PATCH. YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD IT AND APPLY IT.
2 ................
3.................
[/color]"URGENT!!!" -AN EXPERT IN MODULE_PYTON USE IS STILL NEEDED. SEE UP ABOVE HOW TO CONTACT GABRILDURO.
IN GAME CHARACTERS:
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THE GABRILDURO' S BUNCH:
ALAN DE SOISON
AULDMAN
BEARSKULL21
CRUMBS (the invisible but very giving member!!),
LEADTAIL
MICHAEL
POGO
POOMTANG
HISTORY EXPERTS: AULDMAN, BEARSKULL21
SCENES MASTER: CAPTAIN ANTIGONOS
HELPERS: , AJOLIN, KIRIEL, LEN, ABADGAEM. GASTON, RADEZTKY, Cuireach.
TESTERS: corytlh
MY VERY FIRST SUPPORTER AND GOOD FRIEND: ADMIRAL NELSON6262
Schredorz and his team should get full credit for their great Items, textures, animations, etc etc....
We honored him creating a tavern companion with his name: SHREDZORZ. (THX Shredz!!)
I want to thank for their support all people who sent a comment (SEE BELOW) and helped me in some way_
ADMIRAL NELSON6262, CRUMBS (THE GREAT mohican head hunter!!!Thanks friend!!!), BEA1234, COSELETE, KIRIEL, SGCODE, IDIBIL AND ALL FANS AND FRIENDS. OUR WIVES AND KIDS.
And all M&B and WB modders for the work they made and the fun they gave to all of us. ......you can understand their efforts only becoming a modder.
In particular AGE OF FALSE INNOCENCE which made the base of this mod, MORGH'S MOD TOOLS (THAT EVERYBODY USE AND DO NOT GIVE CREDIT!),Dejawolf, Talak, and Faradon for the use of their OSP, Struggle for Bermia, Renaissance, Kill the infidel, Blood and Steel, Star wars, 1866 greatest western mod, Mesoamerica (Great mod about Hernan Cortez), Russia 1917, TEATRC, Hunt Mod, The blue and the grey (first WESTERN MODE!!!), Rathos for the "bisonshield" model, China battlefield (2nd world war), Hegemony 268 v.960, Flanged from gangs of glasgow,bobthe8th for his great sword, Gingolsfin for great maps, Aquil for dark textures, Smiley Stuff Osp,Yiyang Chen,Rabbit, White,Tei Fix for some crashes ,Yamabusi for wanderful Highlanders and expecially, for issues, help and always beeing supportive, IDIBIL of BRYTENWALDA, the best historical and very complete mod ever. AND THE GREAT -IYI-O-R-T- too!!!!!
I WANT TO DEDICATE THIS TO ALL MY FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS AND PLAYERS.....
BUT OVER ALL OF THEM TO YOU, last_mohican MY FRIEND....I KNOW YOU LL LIKE IT!! HE HE
MAGUA...NOW IS YOUR TURN!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7tiKM4fxY1U
PS. FOLKS, DID YOU NOTICE HOW THEY RELOAD WHILE RUNNING??!!
Quote from: last_mohican on February 08, 2011, 04:31:33 PM <blockquote>thank you my friend!! im honored to have my signature along with yours!
thanks to your mod i will now be watching the movie 2 times a week!! haha thank you!
.......AND A PLAYER CANNOT GET THE ESSENCE OF 1755 IF HE HASN T SEEN THAT GREAT GREAT GREATEST MOVIE!!!
FIND some companions in taverns.....I made some of them really powerful.
GOALS;
DONE
-change sounds (man cryes, weapons drawing according to nationality, INDIAN warcries, shots, ORDERS, etc )
-change music including some period marches with drums. Now drawing Spontoon sound is Granadier march.
-change weapons proficiency and ammunition, and now you can RELOAD while you move and on horse back!!!!!Loading time is LONGER and bayonetted weapons STILL have limitations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz56I4n9O4U&feature=fvw or look at this histerical fast champion that shoots 3 times without aiming and almost falls on the ground......and still it took him almost a minute [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMbxZ1k9NQ&feature=related]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMbxZ1k9NQ&feature=related
-make all pistols a DOUBLE set (so you can shoot two times and then reload)
-make Postdam Pistol 2xdouble set (I immagine 2 in the belt and 2 on the saddle) and a 10 loaded musket (and pistol) for sieges or just to have a bunch of loaded weapons.....but their weight is higher!!
-change troops in Brritish, Spanish and French
-change villagers and characters
-change troops in Brritish, Spanish and French
-change villagers and characters
-new enemies and INDIANS (THX CRUUUUUMBS)
-FIX all towns and villages from bugs and make more wooden look and less stone castles (because is basically a Frontier mod)
-MULTYPLAYER (add INDIANS & BANDITS)
- In game CHEATS (press CTRL+J to suddenly stop your horse and CTRL+F9 to fight with slow motion!!!)
-NEW BANNERS for france, GB and Spanish factions
-Names of all lords HISTORICAL
-remake all medieval text and conversations
-Map of the French Indian war
-hunting
-some other things that I am planning
.......................[
History notes:
http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/SevenYearsWar-FrenchandIndianWar-TheWaroftheConquest.htm
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRao22xmGe9bfXCd2QVdCiDVjasL4LvGVn1qm-0XOiyu41CUj9nIA
Britain, however, claimed the same land. Land granted in North America by the British monarch was considered to extend from the east coast all the way to west coast, even though where the location of the west coast was unkown at the time. With the east coast becoming increasingly crowded, settlers began migrating westward, destroying in the process the local Indians' hunting areas. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Daniel_Boone
These, in turn, became increasingly worried that they would lose the use of their land.
The Indian tribes might have been able to resist the westward encroachment of European settlers had they been united, but internecine conflicts kept them apart. When conflict flared between Britain and France, Indians were divided over who to support with some helping the British and others helping the French. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mohawk_nation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4eVwzZ9a_A
IMAGES:
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http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbX0AqZjNnozkT4_ksI1Faxt6LsqXVLSqmMeSJhtKkPVVpDP4C
GOALS;
DONE
-change sounds (man cryes, weapons drawing according to nationality, INDIAN warcries, shots, ORDERS, etc )
-change music including some period marches with drums. Now drawing Spontoon sound is Granadier march.
-change weapons proficiency and ammunition, and now you can RELOAD while you move and on horse back!!!!!Loading time is LONGER and bayonetted weapons STILL have limitations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz56I4n9O4U&feature=fvw or look at this histerical fast champion that shoots 3 times without aiming and almost falls on the ground......and still it took him almost a minute [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMbxZ1k9NQ&feature=related]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMbxZ1k9NQ&feature=related
-make all pistols a DOUBLE set (so you can shoot two times and then reload)
-make Postdam Pistol 2xdouble set (I immagine 2 in the belt and 2 on the saddle) and a 10 loaded musket (and pistol) for sieges or just to have a bunch of loaded weapons.....but their weight is higher!!
-change troops in Brritish, Spanish and French
-change villagers and characters
-change troops in Brritish, Spanish and French
-change villagers and characters
-new enemies and INDIANS (THX CRUUUUUMBS)
-FIX all towns and villages from bugs and make more wooden look and less stone castles (because is basically a Frontier mod)
-MULTYPLAYER (add INDIANS & BANDITS)
- In game CHEATS (press CTRL+J to suddenly stop your horse and CTRL+F9 to fight with slow motion!!!)
-NEW BANNERS for france, GB and Spanish factions
-Names of all lords HISTORICAL
-remake all medieval text and conversations
-Map of the French Indian war
-hunting
-some other things that I am planning
.......................[
History notes:
During the 18th century, land in North America was controlled by Spain, France and Britain, with Spain controlling Florida, France exerting its power in the northern and central areas and Britain controlling the east. All three nations knew they could not co-exist together peacefully in North America and that this situation which could only be settled by war.
http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/SevenYearsWar-FrenchandIndianWar-TheWaroftheConquest.htm
The powerful European nations already were fighting each other for land and money all over the world. These small wars continued for more than one-hundred years and came to be known as King William's War (War of the League of Augsburg), Queen Anne's War, King George's War and the French and Indian War.
The French and Indian War was fought to decide which of Britain or France would become the stronger power in North America, each side relying on its colonists and Indian allies to fight.
The war began with conflicts about land. French explorers had been the first Europeans in the areas around the Great Lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and France had sent traders and trappers to these territories and had established trading centers there.
The French and Indian War was fought to decide which of Britain or France would become the stronger power in North America, each side relying on its colonists and Indian allies to fight.
The war began with conflicts about land. French explorers had been the first Europeans in the areas around the Great Lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and France had sent traders and trappers to these territories and had established trading centers there.
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRao22xmGe9bfXCd2QVdCiDVjasL4LvGVn1qm-0XOiyu41CUj9nIA
Britain, however, claimed the same land. Land granted in North America by the British monarch was considered to extend from the east coast all the way to west coast, even though where the location of the west coast was unkown at the time. With the east coast becoming increasingly crowded, settlers began migrating westward, destroying in the process the local Indians' hunting areas. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Daniel_Boone
These, in turn, became increasingly worried that they would lose the use of their land.
The Indian tribes might have been able to resist the westward encroachment of European settlers had they been united, but internecine conflicts kept them apart. When conflict flared between Britain and France, Indians were divided over who to support with some helping the British and others helping the French. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mohawk_nation
French settlers lived mainly in what was then called New France, today a part of Canada. Settlers there were required to be French and belong to the Roman Catholic Church. As a consequence, numerous Frenchmen who belonged to Protestant churches resettled in the British colonies. Moreover, France was more interested in the fur trade than in settling the land, and thus did not appreciate the high prices paid by the British to the Indians for animal furs.
Where the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania lies today, the French had built one of their trading forts, called Fort Duquesne. Britain, however, claimed the fort was situated in Virginia on top of land belonging to them. In 1754, the governor of Virginia sent a twenty-one-year-old colonist named George Washington to demand the withdrawal of the French -- the same George Washington who would later become the first President of the United States. The French refused to leave and Washington, along with 150 men, tried to force them out, attacking a group of Fenchmen and killing ten of them, sparking the beginnig of the French and Indian War.
British trops under the command of General Edward Braddock joined George Washington at Fort Duquesne. The British general expected to fight the way battles were fought in Europe with troops lined up on open fields and firing their weapons as they marched toward each other. The French and their Indian allies refused to fight in this manner, preferring instead to hide in the woods, donning clothes that made them difficult to see and shooting at British troops from behind the cover of trees. Though the British outnumbered the French side, the French and Indians nevertheless won the battle of Fort Duquesne, killing in the process General Braddock.The bulk of the fighting that occured durig the French and Indian War took place along lakes George and Champlain, in the state of New York state near the Canadian border. Lake Champlain is located north of Lake George and reaches almost all the way to the city of Montreal in Canada. Both of these lakes provided the best way to move troops and supplies as few roads existed in North America at that time. As such, these lakes were of vital strategic importance so that whichever military force controlled the lakes and rivers would in turn control much of North America.
Where the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania lies today, the French had built one of their trading forts, called Fort Duquesne. Britain, however, claimed the fort was situated in Virginia on top of land belonging to them. In 1754, the governor of Virginia sent a twenty-one-year-old colonist named George Washington to demand the withdrawal of the French -- the same George Washington who would later become the first President of the United States. The French refused to leave and Washington, along with 150 men, tried to force them out, attacking a group of Fenchmen and killing ten of them, sparking the beginnig of the French and Indian War.
British trops under the command of General Edward Braddock joined George Washington at Fort Duquesne. The British general expected to fight the way battles were fought in Europe with troops lined up on open fields and firing their weapons as they marched toward each other. The French and their Indian allies refused to fight in this manner, preferring instead to hide in the woods, donning clothes that made them difficult to see and shooting at British troops from behind the cover of trees. Though the British outnumbered the French side, the French and Indians nevertheless won the battle of Fort Duquesne, killing in the process General Braddock.The bulk of the fighting that occured durig the French and Indian War took place along lakes George and Champlain, in the state of New York state near the Canadian border. Lake Champlain is located north of Lake George and reaches almost all the way to the city of Montreal in Canada. Both of these lakes provided the best way to move troops and supplies as few roads existed in North America at that time. As such, these lakes were of vital strategic importance so that whichever military force controlled the lakes and rivers would in turn control much of North America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4eVwzZ9a_A
French military bases were located in the cities of Quebec and Montreal while the British had military bases along New York's Hudson River. The area between them became the war's battle ground. Following the French defeat by the British near Lake George in the last months of 1755, fighting increased and the French attempted to consolidate their hold on Lake Champlain and its surrounding area by building a new military base on the lake's southern end and named it Fort Carillon. From this position, the French would be able to control both Lake Champlain and the area needed to reach the northern part of Lake George. Designed with providing a strong defense in mind, fortifications consisted of two big walls of logs, several meters apart, the area between the walls being filled with dirt. A strong stone front was latter added. The British troops did not remain idle and themselves built a similar fort at the southern end of Lake George which they called Fort William Henry.
France sent one of its best military commanders to take command of its troops in America, the Marquis de Montcalm. Upon arrival, Montcalm proceeded to attack several British forts in 1757, among which Fort William Henry. The British commander was forced to surrender on the condition that British troops would be treated fairly. That agreement was however reneged upon by the French's Indian allies proceeded to kill possibly more than 1,000 British soldiers and settlers alike.
In 1758, a strong British force attacked Fort Carillon which was under the command of General Montcalm. Thanks to its fortifications, Fort Carillon able, despite the smaller size of its military contingent to defeat the bigger British force. The British withdrew, but renewed their attack the following year, under the command of General Jeffery Amhurst. This time, the British were successful and defeated the French. Fort Carillon was renamed Fort Ticonderoga and became an important military center in the French and Indian War. Fort Ticonderoga would later come to play an important role later America's War for Independence.
With the defeat of the French in Quebec and the signing of a treaty in Paris in 1763, the French and Indian war officially came to an end. The British victorious, took control of land previously claimed by France and which stretched from the east coast of North America to the Mississippi River. Everything west of that river belonged to Spain with France giving all its western lands to Spain to keep the British out. Indians still retained control over most of the western lands, except for some Spanish colonies in Texas and New Mexico.
The end of the French and Indian War however had resulted in large debt that the British Parliament decided would be repaid by a raise in taxes on the colonies, being as tehy were the primary beneficiary of the successful prosecution of the war. Taxes were imposed on a number of items, including legal documents and tea. Stamps were issued to be affixed onto the legal documents and newspapers. Beginning in 1765, protests at the taxes and stamps began to mount in the colonies.
France sent one of its best military commanders to take command of its troops in America, the Marquis de Montcalm. Upon arrival, Montcalm proceeded to attack several British forts in 1757, among which Fort William Henry. The British commander was forced to surrender on the condition that British troops would be treated fairly. That agreement was however reneged upon by the French's Indian allies proceeded to kill possibly more than 1,000 British soldiers and settlers alike.
In 1758, a strong British force attacked Fort Carillon which was under the command of General Montcalm. Thanks to its fortifications, Fort Carillon able, despite the smaller size of its military contingent to defeat the bigger British force. The British withdrew, but renewed their attack the following year, under the command of General Jeffery Amhurst. This time, the British were successful and defeated the French. Fort Carillon was renamed Fort Ticonderoga and became an important military center in the French and Indian War. Fort Ticonderoga would later come to play an important role later America's War for Independence.
With the defeat of the French in Quebec and the signing of a treaty in Paris in 1763, the French and Indian war officially came to an end. The British victorious, took control of land previously claimed by France and which stretched from the east coast of North America to the Mississippi River. Everything west of that river belonged to Spain with France giving all its western lands to Spain to keep the British out. Indians still retained control over most of the western lands, except for some Spanish colonies in Texas and New Mexico.
The end of the French and Indian War however had resulted in large debt that the British Parliament decided would be repaid by a raise in taxes on the colonies, being as tehy were the primary beneficiary of the successful prosecution of the war. Taxes were imposed on a number of items, including legal documents and tea. Stamps were issued to be affixed onto the legal documents and newspapers. Beginning in 1765, protests at the taxes and stamps began to mount in the colonies.
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