Which 1754 colonial meeting in New York discussed common defense against France?

The 1754 colonial meeting was the Albany Congress, also called the Albany Convention of 1754.

Representatives from seven British colonies met in Albany, New York, from 19 June to 11 July 1754. They discussed relations with Native American nations—especially the Haudenosaunee—and coordinated defense against the French threat from New France. The meeting took place at the opening of the French and Indian War, the North American theater of the wider Seven Years’ War.

Benjamin Franklin used the gathering to promote the Albany Plan of Union, which proposed a common colonial government with a Crown-appointed president-general and a grand council chosen by the colonial assemblies. The delegates approved the plan, but both the colonial legislatures and British authorities rejected it because they feared losing power or granting the colonies too much autonomy.

The Albany Congress is often confused with the later Stamp Act Congress of 1765 or the Continental Congresses of the Revolutionary era. Those meetings occurred later and addressed different political crises.