French & Indian War

Guilaume Delisle was only twenty-five years old when he constructed this map, which was soon recognized as a landmark map.

The Braddock expedition, also called Braddock’s campaign or, more commonly, Braddock’s Defeat, was a failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne (modern-day downtown Pittsburgh) in the summer of 1755 during the French and Indian War. It was defeated at the…

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> By a brilliant maneuver young James Wolfe conquered “impregnable” Quebec—and secured North America for the English-speaking peoples</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">As it Looked Ninety Years Ago…</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">250 years ago, Major Robert Rogers and his rangers launched a daring wilderness raid against an enemy village, but paid a steep price.</span></p>

<p>Members of the Maryland Forces guard the memories of the dramatic history at Fort Frederick, the best-preserved fort from the former English colonies in America. </p>

<p>Ambitious, temperamental, and passionate, George Washington learned the skills in the French and Indian War that laid the groundwork for the great leader that he would become.</p>

<p>By artfully illustrating the boundaries of colonial powers, mapmakers in the 1700s helped define what our New World would become.</p>