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| Topic | John Kelly: 'The lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War' |
| darkknight109 11/08/17 2:32:12 PM #40: | TheCyborgNinja posted... America was also getting the best tax rate of the colonies. It was just greed. There's also the fact that George Washington and Robert Dinwiddie's incompetence basically kicked off the Seven Years War when they attacked a French-Canadian fort at Jumonville, despite the fact that France and Britain were not at war. This forced Britain to significantly increase their military presence in North America in order to stave off the French and wound up nearly bankrupting Britain. Asking America to help pay for the "damages" that their own military officers had caused isn't exactly the outrage that American historians tend to paint it as. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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