The French and Indian War is the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War.

The name refers to the two main enemies of the British: the royal French forces and the various American Indian forces allied with them.

The conflict, the fourth such colonial war between the kingdoms of France and Great Britain, results in the British conquest of all of New France east of the Mississippi River, as well as Spanish Florida.

The outcome is one of the most significant developments in the persistent Anglo-French Second Hundred Years' War.

To compensate its ally, Spain, for its loss of Florida, France cedes its control of French Louisiana west of the Mississippi.

France's colonial presence north of the Caribbean is reduced to the tiny islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.