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“1764, for instance, the entire budget of the British Empire was £10.7 million; £4.9 million went to pay interest on its obligations—a staggering 45 percent of total government expenditures.”
Patrick Spero, Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
“In 1754, when the war began, Great Britain and France were competing for control of North America. Both empires knew that whoever controlled the area around modern-day Pittsburgh, and the Ohio River that began there, would control the future of North America.”
Patrick Spero, Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776

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