Empire and Nations

In 1750, the British Empire in America included almost two million free and unfree Europeans and Africans living in 23 colonies from Newfoundland to Jamaica. But they were not alone: French, Spanish, and Native American empires competed with the British for control of North America. The resulting clash of empires from 1754 to 1763 was a global conflict that created a British American world unprecedented in its size, the diversity of the nations it contained, and in the potential for conflicts among its peoples.