Another good read for you Kendall is Niall Ferguson's, "EMPIRE How Britain Made The Modern World".

The Seven Years War that Les in Hull referred to, which is known in American History as the Wilderness or Frontier War ended in victory for the British, who had allied themselves with some Indian Tribes to defeat the French and their Indian allies. The treaty that was signed granted security to Indian lands in the Ohio and Wabash basins.

One of the "hoped for" by-products of the American War of Independence of 1776 was the breaking of that treaty, read Ferguson's book, it most certainly had nothing to do with taxation, oppression, representation or tea. Unfortunately for the colonists the British remained in Canada and the treaty held. Nobody ever wonder why Indiana is so named? In 1776 there were only two "white settlements", old French trading posts in the whole territory.

The Americans tweny-nine years after the Treaty of Paris once again tried to complete their take-over of Indian land in 1812 when they declared war on Britain and allied themselves with Napoleonic France. The war was indecisive, Canada remained British, but in 1813 Tecumseh was killed and the Indian lands were lost to westward expansion by American settlers.