On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

The director of the post at Mobile kept an adequate amount of French goods, of a kind to which they were accustomed, to supply the Indian needs.

`` It would be like fighting the French and Indian War all over again '', said one military man.

One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.

The death of James Wolfe | General Wolfe during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ; the campaigns of the French and Indian War resulted in British control of modern Canada.

The French and English were each seeking to control lucrative Indian Ocean trade routes.

Cavalry or mounted gendarmerie units continue to be maintained for purely or primarily ceremonial purposes by the United States, British, French, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Chilean, Portuguese, Moroccan, Nepalese, Nigerian, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Peruvian, Paraguayan, Polish, Argentine, Senegalese, Jordanian, Pakistani, Indian, Spanish and Bulgarian armed forces.

These included the British Indian cavalry, the Russian Cossacks or the French Chasseurs d ' Afrique.

On 30 January 1698, he raised French colours and took his greatest prize, an Armenian ship, the 400 ton Quedagh Merchant, which was loaded with satins, muslins, gold, silver, an incredible variety of East Indian merchandise, as well as extremely valuable silks.

For seventy-four years ( 1689-1763 ) there were six colonial wars, which involved continuous warfare between New England and Acadia ( see the French and Indian Wars as well as Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War ).

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

French, Australian, and Indian groups have parallel offers of up to 200, 000 euros to anyone with demonstrable paranormal abilities ( CFI, 2003 ).

The Detroit River — and the larger area surrounding it — was taken from the French by the British Empire during the French and Indian War and eventually claimed by the newly formed United States during the American Revolution.

Even though the French and Indian War continued over the next several years, Allen did not apparently participate in any further military activities, and is presumed to have tended his farm, at least until 1762.

The “ perennialist ” or “ traditionalist ” school is represented by authors like the French René Guénon ( 1886 – 1951 ), the Indian Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ), the Swiss Frithjof Schuon ( 1907 – 1998 ), the Italian Julius Evola ( 1898 – 1974 ), the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born in 1933 ), both scholars and esotericists.

Gerry was from an early time a vocal opponent of Parliamentary efforts to tax the colonies after the French and Indian War ended in 1763, and won election to General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( its legislative assembly ) in May 1772.

Some popular types of ethnic foods include Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, American, Cajun, Thai, and Indian cuisine.

* 1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

Washington quickly became a senior officer in the colonial forces during the first stages of the French and Indian War.

These competing claims led to a war in the colonies called the French and Indian War ( 1754 – 62 ), and contributed to the start of the global Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ).

The French and their Indian allies ambushed Braddock, who was mortally wounded in the Battle of the Monongahela.

The riotous onrush of industrialism after the War for Southern Independence and the general secular drift to the Religion of Humanity, however, prepared the way for a reception of the French Revolution's socialistic offspring of one sort of another.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The novel has been read as a metaphorical treatment of the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II.

* 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years ' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

* 1759 – Seven Years ' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.

* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

* Albert, Somme a French Commune, site of three battles during the First World War

* 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands ( present day Belgium ), beginning the French Revolutionary War.

The Spanish parliament chose amongst several candidates, including a French Prince, which led to the Franco-Prussian War, when Bismarck refused to have another Frenchman in the Spanish Throne.

* Celestino Alfonso, Spanish republican and volunteer fighter in the French resistance during World War II.

* 1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee ( present-day Sri Lanka ) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.

* 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

At the start of World War I, thousands of the French Cuirassiers rode out to engage the German Cavalry who likewise used helmets and armour.

* 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.

Living standards are high and roughly comparable to those in prosperous French metropolitan areas.

The program trains teachers in how to teach Living History techniques, and to understand and interpret the importance of Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.

His four sons have all been named after directors whom Sutherland has worked with: Kiefer is named after American-born director and writer Warren Kiefer, who, under the assumed name of Lorenzo Sabatini, directed Sutherland in his very first feature film, the Italian low-budget horror film Il castello dei morti vivi ( Castle of the Living Dead ); Roeg is named after director Nicolas Roeg ; Rossif is named after French director Frédéric Rossif ; and Angus Redford has his middle name after Robert Redford.

* Living ( Flemish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish ) — living room or set of living room furniture

Best known for his combination of storytelling and illusion, Copperfield ’ s career of over 30 years has earned him 11 Guinness World Records, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a knighthood by the French government ; and he has been named a Living Legend by the US Library of Congress.

Later he studied Arabic under Silvestre de Sacy, ( 1758 – 1838 ), a member of the French nobility since 1813 and the son of a public notary with Jewish roots, becoming later a rector at the University of Paris, in the School of Living Oriental Languages.

* Tough Choices: Living and Dying in the 21st Century ( 1999 ) — translated into French as Vivre et mourir au 21e siècle: choix et enjeux

Later in 1859, an uncredited article appeared in Littell's Living Age that purported to be the story of the Turk from French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.

* Thomas Adès: Living Toys ( the whip is played by the lead French horn player ) and The Tempest

* Claude Farrère, the first recipient of the French Prix Goncourt literary award, wrote La Maison des Hommes Vivants House Of Living Men ( 1911 ) in which a sect of immortals, founded by the Count of St Germain, steals others ' life forces in order to preserve their own immortality.

His Oral system of teaching Living Languages Illustrated by a Practical Course of Lessons in the French through the medium of English was entered at the library of Congress in 1834.

Recognized internationally for her unique work as a pioneering woman in film production and as a multi-talent in postwar Austrian arts and culture, von Dassanowsky is the only Austrian woman to receive the Women ’ s International Center ’ s prestigious Living Legacy Award, and has been honored with the UNESCO Mozart Medal, the Austrian Decoration of Merit, the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Austrian Film Archive's Lifetime Achievement Medal, by the State of California and the cities of Vienna and Los Angeles, where von Dassanowsky lived since 1962.

The primary text for The Living Theatre is The Theater and Its Double, an anthology of essays written by Antonin Artaud, the French playwright.

Living at French expense, he continued to petition ministers for commitment to another invasion, to their increasing irritation.

Living with his father's family, Billy learned to speak both English and French, after having grown up learning the Iroquoian Mohawk with his mother and her people.

In 1968, Shuman teamed with Eric Blau and adapted the French lyrics of songs by the Belgian composer Jacques Brel used as the basis of the successful off-Broadway production Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.

* Today the books of Living Ethics are translated into the following languages: English, | German, French, Lettish, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Irish et al.

While La Llorona had been entirely in Spanish, The Living Road included songs in English, French and Spanish.

Kelly imported the first Marwari horse into the United States in 2000 ; the first Marwari was exported to Europe in 2006, when a stallion was given to the French Living Museum of the Horse.

Subduing, arresting, and battling with an entient Smart Cloth " Living Leather " suit, a French post-human terrorist leader and his mechas, terrorist artists, biotattooed orcas, the blood thirsty Teddy Roosevelt gladiator, Kei's schoolgirl crush, and Binky.

“ The collective-creation idea was inspired obviously by the Living Theatre ,” said Paul Thompson, “ but more closely by a company called Theatre d ’ Aujord ’ hui … There were a group of actors who had come out of the French section of the National Theatre School and were doing some very good improvisationally written shows and that sort of got me excited .”

His autobiography ' Who is Michael Briant ' has been published by Classic Press and his ' French Canal Routes to the Mediterranean, The Gentle Sailing Route to the Mediterranean, Strait Sailing to Gibraltar and ' Living Aboard Around the World have been published by EdwinEditions and are available as hard copy or Ebooks from www. michaelbriant. com.

Ridgemont is a semestered school offering many programs, such as French immersion, English as a Second Language, ECL ( Everyday Community Living ), and international languages ( Somali, Arabic, Spanish ).