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The year 1763 marked the end of the French and Indian War, and the final defeat of the French and their Native American allies in America. For America’s English colonists, this was a cause for great celebration and pride in their English identity. To this day, now over two hundred years later, the reasons behind this abrupt transition of England and her American colonies from allies to enemies are debated. There were many different views on if the English colonists were justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain. Some of the people with the different types of views were Thomas Whately, John Dickinson, Nicholas Cresswell, and The Declaration of Inde