How Did Kennedy's War Influence North American Theatre

The North American theatre of the Seven Year’s War, also known as the French and Indian War, had large scale effects on the two powers involved both on the North American continent and in Europe. Whilst the French certainly enjoyed victories early in the conflict, a general lack of will to continue the war in the Americas on the part of the French contributed to a lack of potency in the theatre. This was exacerbated by the fact that the British were able to effectively maintain a blockade of the Atlantic that separated the fighting in continental Europe from the smaller scale conflicts in North America. Due to the naval contribution to the war however, there were implications for colonial assets in the Caribbean that brought the aspects of the North American theatre outside…show more content…
Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, pp. 146-147.
[ 6 ]. There were instances of blockade running, however on the whole and particularly as the war progressed, the British blockade was extremely effective, Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery, pp. 117-119.
[ 7 ]. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, p. 148.
[ 8 ]. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery, pp. 122-123.
[ 9 ]. Stephen Brumwell, Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763. Cambridge University Press, 2006, Melbourne, pp. 26-31.
[ 10 ]. Matthew Ward, “The European method of warring Is Not Practiced Here”: The Failure of British Military Policy in the Ohio Valley, 1755-1759,’ in War In History, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1997, pp. 262-263.
[ 11 ]. Christopher Lloyd, The Capture of Quebec, William Clowes and Sons Ltd., London, 1959, pp. 75-81.
[ 12 ]. Stuart Reid, Quebec 1759: The Battle That Won Canada, Osprey Publishers, Oxford, 2003, pp. 76-77.
[ 13 ]. Fred Anderson, "The Real First World War and the Making of America" in American Heritage, November/December 2005 accessed from http://americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2005/6/2005_6_75.shtml, on 15 Apr