Why did France and great Britain go to war against each other?

Answer 1

Both sides remained fundamentally unsatisfied with the terms of the Peace of Amiens and the other settlements they signed in 1801 and 1802.

Great Britain had good reasons for being dissatisfied with the international situation in being after the Treaty of Amiens, that is:

1- it became soon evident that Napoleon was resolute to bar the British influence on the continent by all means, open or hidden;

2 - Great Britain tried to negotiate a new commercial treaty between the two countries, but the proposal had been rejected by France;

3 - France kept de facto the control over Antwerp and the Scheldt Estuary'were two vital places for the British security, which Great Britain, since from the medieval times, couldn't "tolerate" of being dominated or easily bound to fall under the rule of a potentially hostile country;

4 - claiming various excuses Napoleon carried out between 1801 and 1802 the occupation or the veiled control, one after the other, of Piedmont, the Elba, Parma, Switzerland and the Netherlands. In so doing he made Great Britain aware that Napoleon's territorial ambitions were far for being satisfied and that attitude was leading to set up a real threat to the British trade markets on the continent;

5 - thanks to the somewhat lenient condition of peace afforded, France was restored to its rank of naval power in the Mediterranean and as a colonial power especially in the Caribbean. That opened the gate to Napoleon's initiatives in those fields, like the military expedition to Haiti, the sell of the Louisiana territories to the United States, the renewed French aims towards the Syria and last but not least the announced French expedition to India which hurt the relevant British interests and raised the friction between the two countries.

In March 1803, the situation evolved to an escalation that would led to the war, despite the sincere tentatives of the France Foreign Minister Talleyrand to find out a compromise which would save the peace:

- on May 10,1803, the British Prime Minister Addington, well aware that Napoleon was not yet ready for the war sent a virtual ultimatum to France;

- the French government reacted by the mobilization of 160,000 men to be deployed on the coast of the English Channel;

- Great Britain ordered the "embargo" upon all French ships standing in the British ports;

- Napoleon replied ordering all British subjects resident in France and its satellite countries or in transit through were to be arrested;

- On May 15 1803, France declared war on Great Britain, firing the first shots against a British frigate, when a French convoy in the Channel met her by chance.

Answer 2

The first skirmish of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), occurred when a small force under George Washington engaged and defeated a reconnaissance party of French and Indians near Fort Duquesne. Washington erected Fort Necessity at nearby Great Meadows and eventually surrendered to French forces. The dispute was over the boundary between New France - that territory claimed by France east of the Mississippi River- and the seaboard British colonies in America.

The European counterpart to the French and Indian War began officially between France and England on May 15, 1756, when the latter made a formal declaration of war. Actually, fighting had been going on in America for two years. The war involved all the major European powers and was worldwide in scope, but to the colonists it was a struggle against the French for control of North America. The war did not go well for England until the elder William Pitt came to power in 1756. He concentrated on fighting the French and sent badly needed troop reinforcements to North America.

Britain won Canada and the rest of "New France" in the Treaty of Paris 1763.

During the French and Indian War in 1755, British General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded when he and his force of British troops and colonial militia were caught in a French and Indian ambush. Braddock had just crossed the Monongahela River on his way to attack Fort Duquesne, on the site of what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Braddock died July 13, 1755, and George Washington assumed command of the retreating army.

Answer 3

They went to war with Germany to fulfill their promise to Poland.They had both promised Poland if Germany attacked, they would declare war.

Answer 4

The main reason for the declaration of war against in the Seven Years War had to do with the American colonies. England wanted to expand and France did not want them to.

Answer 5

France and Britan went to war in 1754 because they both wanted land past the Appalachian Mountains.

Answer 6

cause they saw yo mama face and battle over who could shoot her in the face first

Answer 7

he was on neighbours!