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The Franco-Indigenous Alliance was an alliance between North American indigenous nations and the French, centered on the Great Lakes and the Illinois country during the French and Indian War (1754–1763). [1]
Various Franco-Indian Alliances were formed between France and various Indian kingdoms from the 18th century to the ascent of Napoleon.Following the alliances of Dupleix, a formal alliance was formed between by King Louis XVI during the American Revolutionary War in an attempt to oust the British East India Company from the Indian subcontinent.
The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903.He founded and endowed the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, and it opened in 1922, in a building at 155th Street and Broadway, part of the Audubon Terrace complex, in the Sugar Hill neighborhood, just south of Washington Heights. [2]
This category contains articles about the French and Indian War (1754−1763) — the traditional American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War The main article for this category is French and Indian War .
In 1778, the Treaty of Alliance established this new partnership. The alliance led to the first military cooperation between the Americans and French during the Battle of Rhode Island (August 1778 ...
(This settlement is where present-day Herkimer, New York, is located, and not the modern German Flatts on the south side of the Mohawk River.) Vaudreuil assembled a force of about 300 at Lachine under the command of François-Marie Picoté de Belestre , an experienced commander in the troupes de la marine .
The Albany Congress was the first time in the 18th century that American colonial representatives met to discuss some manner of formal union. In the 17th century, some New England colonies had formed a loose association called the New England Confederation, principally for purposes of defense, as raiding was frequent by French and allied Indian tribes.
Franco-English alliance: 1657–1660 Franco-Indian alliance: 1603–1763 Franco-British alliance: 1716–1731 Franco-Spanish alliance: 1733–1792 Franco-Prussian alliance: 1741–1756 Franco-Austrian alliance: 1756–1792 Franco-Indian Alliances: 1700s Franco-Vietnamese alliance: 1777–1820 Franco-American alliance: 1778–1794 Franco-Persian ...