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What If 'We' Had Not Fought the French and Indian War?

What If 'We' Had Not Fought the French and Indian War?

A Counterfactual Thought Experiment

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Christopher Cook
Nov 14, 2023
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For several weeks I have had a tab open on my browser: James Otis’s “Speech Against Writs of Assistance” (February 24, 1761). I finally just went to read it, but I only made it a paragraph into the introduction before a thought occurred to me.

“By 1760 the British seemed poised for victory in the French and Indian War. But as the expense of the war weigh…

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