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The French and indian war was known as the French and indian war because?​

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the British colonists named the war The French and Indian war because they were their opponents

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There had already been a King George's War in the 1740s during the reign of King George II, so British colonists named this conflict after their opponents, and it became known as the French and Indian War.

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