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<p>Q: Compare and contrast the American and the British views regarding the results of the French and Indian War.</p>
<p>A: The outcome of the French and Indian War was one of the principal causations of the outbreak of American Revolution in 1776. While the British viewed the war as a monetary black hole and the American troops a clamour of poorly trained ragamuffins, the Americans felt they had fought well alongside their British comrades.
We might suppose that the Americans, or rather, British colonists, had a right to think so well of themselves. Although they may not have won many battles by themselves, they felt proud of their accomplishments in not only the Seven Years War, but in the previous three wars with France and Spain (King Williams War, Queen Annes War, and King Georges War, respectively). The colonists also were more familiar with the lay of the land, and naturally so, and while this may not have given British troops any great advantage, it certainly did not allow their French and Native American counterparts any great advantage, either. The Americans pride in their soldiers abilities augmented after the war ended in victory for the British (which at that time meant the Americans/colonists, too). Not only that, but the colonists took a poor view of British military tactics, which they felt were unsuited for Americas woodland terrain.
However, the British didnt exactly take this stand on the colonists performance during the war. British generals found the colonial troops disorderly; any military victory claimed was claimed by the kings army, not the colonists. That some colonies had not contributed men or resources to the war effort led the British people, and the British government, to think that the colonies were either unwilling or unable to help defend what was, essentially, their own property and borders. In the eyes of the British, the colonies were, at worst, a horde of uncooperative, incompetent rabble; at best, they were dependent children that needed Britains strong hand to guide them.
Moreover, the war was a financial sinkhole. Britain had taxed its own citizens in the Great Britain to near breaking point; now British citizens cried for the burden of paying for colonial defence to fall where it belongedon the colonists (this would lead to various taxes on the colonies, most notably the Stamp Act, which had been in effect in Great Britain long before 1765, which would eventually lead to the revolutionary cry no taxation without representation and the American Revolutionary War in 1776).
In a nutshell, the British views contrast sharply with the Americans view of the outcome of the French and Indian War. While the colonists view of the war was, on the whole, that their soldiers had fought bravely alongside their fellow Britons, the British did not look so well upon the colonial effort: They found the American troops disorderly and poorly trained; they found the American war effort and cooperation generally under par and unenthusiastic; they found controlling Americas borders costly, but as the American militia was quite obviously incapable of protecting its own territories, it became apparent to the British that Daddy England was just going to have to hold Briton Jr.s hand.</p>