Deals with the Clash between the French and British (English) in the 1750s over the Land in the Ohio Valley

As the English and French boundaries began to meet by the 1750s, great tensions were wrought between the two contending countries. While the French were mainly occupying North America for the possibilities it presented involving trade, the English were looking to colonize the continent and spread through its vast, welcoming expanses. With these two opposing interests, the English?s to clear land for settlements, and the French?s to reap the benefits of land until it was barren, there was sure to be controversy. With both nations claiming the land to be their own, the stage was set for a grand clash between the two empires.…