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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and the 7 years war was fought without consent from the colonies. The colonies did not want to fight the french, their allies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

The colonies, including a colonist named George Washington (a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army) started the 7 year war by ambushing a group of French soldiers building a fort on French territory in the Ohio river valley. I don't know where you get the idea that the British colonists were allies with the French. But, if that was the case, the French must have found that a pretty confusing thing for their allies to do.