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How did the french and indian war change the geographic boundaries of the 13 colonies

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It was a war next to the colonies, started by the colonies. Colonial soldiers fought in the was alongside British regulars. And the threat of enemy natives caused Britain to put a protective detail of soldiers in the colonies to be payed for by a modification in the existing tax of sugar, which actually reduced the tax.
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It was a war next to the colonies, started by the colonies. Colonial soldiers fought in the was alongside British regulars. And the threat of enemy natives caused Britain to put a protective detail of soldiers in the colonies to be payed for by a modification in the existing tax of sugar, which actually reduced the tax.
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