Conquest of New France

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The Conquest of New France occurred during the Seven Years' War, fought in North America between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of France. It started with a British campaign in 1758 and ended with the region being put under a British military regime between 1760 and 1763. Britain's acquisition of the French colony of Canada, which France had established in 1535, became official with the 1763 Treaty of Paris that concluded the Seven Years' War. The term is usually used when discussing the impact of the British conquest on the 70,000 French colonist inhabitants, as well as on the First Nations peoples. At issue in popular and scholarly debate ever since is the British treatment of the French settler population along with the long-term historical impacts of the conquest.

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