It was part of the first global war

Horace Walpole, an English playwright, famously wrote, "The volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the globe on fire." In fact, the 1754 fight initiated by George Washington ignited the Seven Years' War, a worldwide conflict that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

The Seven Years' War, which Winston Churchill referred to as "the first world war", saw battles fought in Europe, the Caribbean, the Philippines, India, and Africa. The French and Indian War is the name given to the conflict's North American phase. While Britain continued to fight France in North America, it relied on its ally Prussia, under the leadership of Frederick the Great, to continue the fight against France, Austria, Russia, and Sweden in Europe. During the French and Indian War, Native American tribes fought alongside colonial forces from Great Britain and France. They fought across North America over lands and expansion.