Been kicking this idea around for about a year. I've got almost 40,000 words so far. This is the first paragraph. Looking for constructive input.
In the wake of the Wars of Spanish and Austrian Succession, the British made advancements and claims into American lands that extended deep into disputed areas between Britain and France, where the border demarcations were already uncertain. The tenuous borders stretching and linking the areas of New France with Louisiana were in jeopardy at the hands of British intruders. Even with natural boundaries, territorial claims remained conflicted, and the added presence of Indian tribes became the crux of international tension. In all areas from the Great Lakes region of upstate New York and western Pennsylvania, to the St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain, British settlers pushed the united Iroquois tribes and other native nations off their sacred land and into New France. This alienated all native tribes that once lived in the New England and the Northern colonies, and firmly placed Indian loyalty in France’s pocket, in spite of the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht that made the Iroquois British subjects. It was mainly because the Iroquois had been made British subjects that the British felt they could order the Iroquois off their own land. The natives were permitted to live on designated reservations of land in New France, which helped to increase the population in the already-sparsely-inhabited French territory. French traders made regular contact with the tribes, readily exploiting their imperial monopoly of influence over the natives, and the men of each tribe were trained by French soldiers in the use of modern European-style warfare, weaponry, and technique while maintaining their own native fighting style. Conversely, the Iroquois were able to share their own “best practices” of warfare, creating an armed alliance that proved impossible to break. Further encroachment by British colonists into French territory provoked open war with the British on one side and the French and their Indian allies on the other. In the Americas, this was dubbed the “French and Indian War” and served as the American extension of the larger European Ten Years War. In Europe, the geopolitical situation had a ripple effect across the Atlantic and positioned France in such a way that she had a great shot at running away from the war with her empire fully intact, but not without a fight. This was a global war for imperial supremacy between the two dominant European powers of the day that would last a full ten years and cost the lives of millions upon millions of men.
In the wake of the Wars of Spanish and Austrian Succession, the British made advancements and claims into American lands that extended deep into disputed areas between Britain and France, where the border demarcations were already uncertain. The tenuous borders stretching and linking the areas of New France with Louisiana were in jeopardy at the hands of British intruders. Even with natural boundaries, territorial claims remained conflicted, and the added presence of Indian tribes became the crux of international tension. In all areas from the Great Lakes region of upstate New York and western Pennsylvania, to the St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain, British settlers pushed the united Iroquois tribes and other native nations off their sacred land and into New France. This alienated all native tribes that once lived in the New England and the Northern colonies, and firmly placed Indian loyalty in France’s pocket, in spite of the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht that made the Iroquois British subjects. It was mainly because the Iroquois had been made British subjects that the British felt they could order the Iroquois off their own land. The natives were permitted to live on designated reservations of land in New France, which helped to increase the population in the already-sparsely-inhabited French territory. French traders made regular contact with the tribes, readily exploiting their imperial monopoly of influence over the natives, and the men of each tribe were trained by French soldiers in the use of modern European-style warfare, weaponry, and technique while maintaining their own native fighting style. Conversely, the Iroquois were able to share their own “best practices” of warfare, creating an armed alliance that proved impossible to break. Further encroachment by British colonists into French territory provoked open war with the British on one side and the French and their Indian allies on the other. In the Americas, this was dubbed the “French and Indian War” and served as the American extension of the larger European Ten Years War. In Europe, the geopolitical situation had a ripple effect across the Atlantic and positioned France in such a way that she had a great shot at running away from the war with her empire fully intact, but not without a fight. This was a global war for imperial supremacy between the two dominant European powers of the day that would last a full ten years and cost the lives of millions upon millions of men.