French and Indian War ("7 Years War") (may 28, 1754 – sep 10, 1763)

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England and France fought the French and Indian War, which caused England to go into debt leading to England taxing the 13 colonies.

Quote 1: "The paths to glory lead but to the grave"

- From Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Country Courtyard," recited, according to legend, by James Wolfe the night before he died in battle on the Plains of Abraham

Quote 2: "Savages may indeed be a formidable enemy to your raw American militia; but upon the king's regular and disciplined troops, Sir, it is impossible they should make an impression."

- British General Edward Braddock to Benjamin Franklin, 1755, after rejecting proposals from the Ohio Indians that the British and Native Americans ally and just before departing for the Ohio Valley where he was defeated and killed by French and North American Indian forces at the Battle of the Wilderness16