Multiple choice general knowledge

The French and Indian Wars were triggered when French and Algonquian Indians massacred the inhabitants of this city in 1690. Which?

  1. Rochester

  2. Albany

  3. Schenectady

  4. Salam
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C Correct answer
Explanation

In 1690, French forces and their Algonquian allies attacked and massacred the inhabitants of Schenectady, a small settlement in New York. This brutal raid was retaliation for earlier British attacks on French settlements and helped escalate the series of colonial conflicts known as the French and Indian Wars. Schenectady was a vulnerable frontier town caught in the imperial rivalry between Britain and France.

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