Excerpt from The American Revolution as an Aftermath of the Great War for the Empire, 1754-1763 Indeed, while British historians at length were led to adopt the nomenclature applied by German and other continental historians to all hostilities that took place between 1754 and 1763 in both the Old and New Worlds, American historians, by and large in the past, have rejected, and rightly so, it seems, the name the Seven Years' War to designate specifically the struggle during these years in North America with the fate of that continent at stake; so likewise many of them have rejected, as equally inadmissible, the name the French and Indian War Instead, the late Professor Osgood employed the title the Fourth Intercolonial War surely not a good one; George Bancroft called the war the American Revolution: First Phase still more inaccurate in some respects than the names he sought to avoid; Francis Parkman, with the are of a romanti cist, was at first inclined to call it the Old French War but finally, under the in uence of the great-man-in-history thesis, gave to his two remarkable volumes concerned with it the totally misleading name, Montcalm and Wolfe; finally, John Fiske, the philosopher-historian, as luminous in his views as he was apt to be careless in the details of historical scholarship, happily fastened upon the name the Great War. In the series on the British Empire before the American Revolution the writer has built upon Fiske's title and has called it the Great War for the Empire in order to emphasize not only the fact that the war was a very' great con ict both in its scope and in its lasting effects, as Fiske saw it with clearness, but also, as a war entered into specifically for the defense of the British Em pire, that it was by far the most important ever waged by Great Britain to this end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."