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The French and Indian war played a huge role in the development of the American Revolution. The French and Indian war was fought between the French and Huron and the British and Iroquois. The war lasted seven years and gave the Americans experience in war that was vital to the American Revolution. The French and Indian War was a catalyst tot he American Revolution because it unified the colonies. All of the colonies were fighting one enemy, the French. This caused the colonies to come together and fight for a common goal. This was the first time the separate colonies acted as a united nation. The colonies didn't have a central government and originally acted as separate governments within the colonies. The war brought 20,000 armed colonists to fight the French. The colonists realized that if they united, they had a lot of power to overcome the British control. The French and Indian War created bad blood between the British and the colonists. the colonists were forced to pay taxes to the British government, even though they had no representation in the government. The colonists were being taxed because the British were supplying them with an army and supplies for the war. This made the colonists mad because they felt they were British citizens and shouldn't be taxed more just to be protected by the government. When the British won the war, they created the Proclamation of 1763. The proclamation declared that the colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. The British did this because they didn't want the colonists to settle too far away from England. They wanted to keep the colonists under British control. The colonists had fought for this land and they felt they had the right to expand west. Many of the colonists were very angry. These rising problems created tension between the colonies and England, which eventually caused a revolution. The Seven Years War gave the colonists experience in warfare. They saw from the Indians how guerilla warfare was an effective fighting tactic against the British. The British fought in neat lines and couldn't compete against the Indians. The colonists learned that the British were not invincible. For example, Colonel Bradock lost a very important fight to the French and Indians. The Colonists had experience in war leadership and organization. They learned important tactics from both the Indians and the British. Many important revolutionary leaders got their first experiences in warfare, such as George Washington. Through the seven years war, the colonists got important and vital information to fighting the revolutionary war.