Conquest of New France
| Conquest of New France | |||||||||
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| Part of the French and Indian War | |||||||||
Depiction of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759, a decisive British victory that led to the British occupation of Quebec City, visible at centre | |||||||||
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| Iroquois | |||||||||
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The conquest of New France (French: La Conquête) was the military conquest of New France by Great Britain during the French and Indian War. It started with a British campaign in 1758 and ended with the region being put under a British military regime between 1760 and 1763. Britain's acquisition of the New France colony of Canada, which the Kingdom of France had established in 1535, became official with the 1763 Treaty of Paris that concluded the Seven Years' War. The term is usually used when discussing the impact of the British conquest on the 70,000 French inhabitants, as well as on the First Nations. At issue in popular and scholarly debate ever since is the British treatment of the French settler population along with the long-term historical impacts of the conquest.