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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In the Pays d'en Haut Anglo settlers were moving in, French forts were rapidly expanding and militarizing, and both colonial powers were jockeying for Indigenous allies and exclusive trade partners. And in Acadia the oaths issue was still unresolved and considerable swaths of the country that France 'ceded' to Britain was under the control of the French-allied Wabanaki.

Another war was inevitable, Washington just lit the powderkeg.