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347: The American Revolution (Part 1)
The Rest Is History
The Pro-British Relationship With the French and the Native Americans
North America's largest crop is tobacco and that sells for an average of £750,000 a year. The sugar cane and the molasses from the West Indies fetching an annual average of nearly £4 million. There is this constant sense that there is huge wealth out there in land in the Ohio Valley. George Washington is personally really invested in that. Although he's from a very wealthy Virginia family and he marries the richest widow in Virginia. He ends up as 18th century gentlemen often did hugely in debtied. Once more lands he'd like like hundreds and thousands of other American colonists have a very personal financial investment in white European expansion beyond the Appalachians.
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