The French and Indian war is also known as the 7 year war. The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France.The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Native American forces allied with them. But thr name that most historian perfer to call the war is "Anglo-French rivalry", because it wasnt just the French and Indian it was Britian as well. The war was fought along the frontiers separating New France from the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia.