Conquest of New France

Conquest of New France
	Part of the Seven Years' War
	; Depiction of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759, a decisive British victory that led to the British occupation of Quebec City, visible at centre
Date	June 1758 – September 1763
Location	New France
Result	British victory New France absorbed into the British Empire;
Belligerents
Kingdom of Great Britain Thirteen Colonies; Iroquois Confederacy	Kingdom of France Colony of Canada;
Commanders and leaders
James Wolfe †; Jeffrey Amherst; James Murray; William Haviland;	Louis-Joseph de Montcalm †; François de Lévis ; Marquis de Vaudreuil ;

The conquest of New France (French: La Conquête) – the military conquest of New France by Great Britain during the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763 – 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 Canada 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 inhabitants, as well as on the First Nations. At issue in popular and scholarly debate ever since is the British treatment of the French population, and the long-term historical impact for good or ill.

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