French and Indian War Token Set

Description

French and Indian War Token Set. Condition is New. Made in the USA
BRITISH SHILLING 1745 -
uring King George’s War from 1744- 1748 the French had lost Louisbourg to the British so they moved to Crown Point on Lake Champlain which was a staging area for Native American attacks on English settlements. Sir Wm. Johnson responded by organizing the Iroquois to strike back against French positions. French counterstrikes fell against Saratoga & Albany in late 1745. Losses on both sides were extremely high, but no clear victor emerged from the fighting in the West. King George’s War did not resolve the North American rivalry between France & Britain, that resolution would not occur for another 15 years.
GEORGE III 3-PENCE 1762 -
George III became King of England in 1760 succeeding after his grandfather George II died. After 5 years of conflict of the French & Indian war, the governments in Europe were beginning to run short of both men & money with which to continue the war which led to final attempts to seize territory to use as bargaining chips in peace negotiations as well as overtures for peace. When George III took over in 1760 he began to shift British policy. This 3-pence along with the 1,2, & 4-pence were all issued for use as currency coins.
BRITISH HALFPENCE 1745 -
King George’s War was the 3rd in a series of Anglo-French Colonial conflicts in N. America. Britain & France had been in conflict over colonial boundaries in Acadia, N. New England, & the Ohio Valley. Warfare developed in the American colonies in 1744 when the French attacked a British position at Canso, Nova Scotia on May 13 destroying a fortification & transporting prisoners to the French stronghold at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. In 1745, Wm. Pepperrell from Maine raised a force of 4,000 men & attacked Louisbourg which was regarded as the most secure position in N. America. The British Navy assisted by preventing reinforcements from reaching the French fort. The siege ended in June when British soldiers staged an heroic raid on the fortress, forcing its capitulation. King George II rewarded Pepperrell with a baronetcy, the 1st American colonist so honored.
LOUIS XV ECU 1763 -
The French & Indian War also known as the Seven Year War & in Canada (particularly in Quebec) as the War of the Conquest was a war fought in Northern America between 1754 & 1763 when it ended with the signing of the
Treaty of Paris.  The name, French & Indian War refers to the two main enemies of the British; the royal French forces & the various American Indian forces that allied with them.  This was the
4th such Colonial war between the nations of French & Great Britain resulting in the British Conquest of Canada.  The outcome was one of the most significant developments in a century of Anglo-French Conflict.