Why did the british begin to win the french and indian war after 1758?

Answer 1

They completed their objectives (to defend Canada) and the Americans didn't complete their objectives (to take over Canada). The British also had less soldiers killed, wounded or missing then the Americans. Also, Great Britain won most of the key battles like the Battle of Queenston Heights and the Battle of Detroit.

Answer 2

French and Indian war (1754-63), precursor and part of the worldwide http://www.answers.com/topic/seven-years-war for empire. Smouldering rivalry for dominance of the Ohio valley burst into flames in May 1754, when an expedition under http://www.answers.com/topic/george-washington ambushed an alleged French 'embassy' that was stalking him. Later captured by the brother of the slain emissary, Washington was released after signing a confession to the 'murder'.

In 1755, newly arrived with regular army reinforcements, Maj Gen Braddock prepared to advance into the Ohio valley from Virginia, pausing only to alienate potential Indian allies and the colonial militia by his arrogance. With Washington as his ADC, he marched into a French-led Indian ambush at the http://www.answers.com/topic/battle-of-monongahela-river, losing three-quarters of his men, his money chest, his campaign plan (written in London), and his life. Washington remained with him to the end, escaping with several bullet holes in his clothing. The defeat encouraged previously neutral and even well-disposed Indians to drive in the frontier of settlement by 150 miles, killing hundreds.

Thus long before the formal declaration of hostilities in 1756, the conflict in North America was already a full-scale war. The presence or absence of Indian allies defined the earlier engagements, in which the French generally prevailed. Defending his use of atrocity-prone Indians to do most of the fighting, the French governor boasted that thanks to them 100 British died for every Frenchman. Not counted by either side, Indian casualties are unknown.

British success during this time was limited to the capture of Nova Scotia (Fr.: Acadia) and the deportation of the French settlers, who became the 'Cajuns' of Louisiana. The New York militia with Mohawk allies won a rare victory at Lake George, and Fort William Henry was built on the spot, only to be taken (an episode depicted in The Last of the Mohicans) and razed after the 1756 arrival of Montcalm to command French forces. Before that, he seized New York's western outpost at Fort Oswego, and with it British hopes of controlling Lake Ontario. To forestall their move towards an overt alliance with the French, desperate colonial officials concluded treaties with the Iroquois confederation and the Delaware in 1756-8, which gave up ceded lands and promised an end to British expansion into their territory. Neither side, of course, had any intention of respecting the terms once the French were defeated.

Under the hammer of defeat and recognizing the shortcomings of the regular army, British colonial authorities encouraged the development of light infantry units and tactics better suited to frontier warfare. The outstanding practitioner was Robert http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-rogers, commissioned in 1755 by the governor of Massachusetts to 'distress the French and their allies' by every means possible. But although his Rangers and a similar regiment raised by his brother were later to be incorporated into the regular army, it is fair to say that the lessons taught by this war were never accepted by the British army. Contempt for colonial militia and pound-foolish parsimony towards potentially invaluable Indian allies prevailed through the http://www.answers.com/topic/american-revolutionary-war to the http://www.answers.com/topic/war-of-1812.

The colonial militia turned the military tide in mid-1758, and this was more important than any dubious treaty in detaching Indian allies from the French. They lost http://www.answers.com/topic/siege-of-louisbourg, Oswego, and Duquesne in quick succession, closing their St Lawrence lifeline to France and their Lake Ontario route west of the Alleghenies. Finally even the staunchly anti-British Seneca abandoned them in 1759, which contributed to the fall of Forts Niagara and Ticonderoga in July. In September http://www.answers.com/topic/quebec-battle-of fell to a daring assault led by http://www.answers.com/topic/james-wolfe in which both he and Montcalm died. Although the French counter-attacked in May 1760, bottling up the British garrison, it was sustained by the navy until relieved when militia columns advanced from the south, combining to take Montreal in September. Some French resistance continued, but the rest of the war in North America was mainly against Indian guerrilla outbreaks.

The biggest of these was in the south where the Cherokee, in return for promises from the governor of South Carolina to defend their homelands against the pro-French Choctaw and the opportunistic Creek, sent warriors north to assist in the 1758 attack on Fort Duquesne. The forts built to 'protect' the Cherokee homeland proved to be a Trojan horse, and when a group of returning warriors clashed with scalp-hunting frontiersmen, simmering discontent erupted into an uprising which took four years and two armies to subdue. The Treaty of Paris in February 1763 formally ended French participation in the war, but within months http://www.answers.com/topic/pontiac-s-rebellion was to give renewed significance to the Indian part.

Answer 3

Actually, it was more of a draw than a win. The British gave back some of the forts they had taken and the French did the same. The border stayed pretty much the same as it had been when the war started.

Answer 4

The British Troops had more support (materials and new soldiers) which enabled them to win the French & Indian War.

Answer 5

who the fk cares

Answer 6

Quebec