And the French realized that this British Atlantic Maritime trade was making Britain so rich that Britain might come for France's actually valuable colonies, which were not in the continental US, but those slave-based sugar plantations in the Caribbean. So the fighting began around here, and while the British did send over actual British troops, much of the early fighting was done by colonial militias. Probably the most famous commander of British troops was a Virginia colonel named George Washington. In fact, he may have actually started the shooting at the Battle of Fort Necessity in May of 1754. Washington was captured in that battle, but then he was immediately released, because 18th century war was super weird. Anyway, the real North American action was in New York and Canada. At the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759, for instance, the British defeated the French and captured the city of Quebec.