Whigs & Scalps

Whigs & Scalps

Designer: Kevin Forcet
Publisher: The Department of War Studies, King's College London
Type: Wargame
Status: Free
Available from: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/wsg/consim.html

A simulation of The French & Indian War (1754-1760)

The French & Indian War is the name used by North American academics to refer to the military activity that took place between 1754 and 1760 in North America and triggered the larger Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). Last of a series of four colonial conflicts, it ended French presence in North America.

As a result of The French & Indian War, the British more than tripled the size of their colonies: to the eyes of the world, Britain reigned unchallenged in North America. Yet the financial burden of the French and Indian War provoked many frictions between the Crown and the colonial assemblies, and sparked a series of events that would eventually make the Thirteen Colonies declare Independence on the 4th of July 1776 and seek the assistance of the French to defeat the British.