Was always weird to me how "the French and Indian War" had Indian involvement almost over emphasized to pretend like it wasn't the extension of a European war...

While all the other American conflicts with tons of Indian involvement (both sides, esp civil war) had it downplayed.

One of my first realizations of slant put on history.

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tdeck 4 days ago | parent [-]

It's more properly a campaign of the Seven Years War, which was almost a world war of its time.

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beerandt 3 days ago | parent [-]

>like it wasn't the extension of a European war...

	▲	tdeck 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My comment wasn't intended as a "correction", just adding that historians seem to refer to this war by a different name these days. At least in the textbooks I learned from, it was discussed in the context of the Seven Years War.
	▲	pqtyw 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The French and Indian war began 2 years before the war in Europe. So in a way it was the other way around (of course there were much more important factors than what was effectively an ongoing proxy war in faraway colonies)