Effects Of The French And Indian War On England. As a result of the British victory in the French and Indian War France was effectively expelled from the New World. During this time the British had incurred a massive military debt which had to be paid over the long-term.
In Britain the string of French victories had allowed William Pitt a formidable British statesman who had been sidelined by his political enemies to assume control of the British war effort. At the start of the war the French colonies had a population of roughly 60000 settlers compared with 2 million in the British colonies. English colonists ran out of land they want to move westFrench and English both claim the ohio river valley.
After the 1763 Treaty of Paris that ended the French and Indian War or the Seven Years War British colonists had to defend the frontier where French colonists and their tribal allies remained a powerful force.
During the Seven Years War Britains national debt nearly doubled and the colonies would shoulder a good portion of the burden of paying it off. The consequences of the French and Indian War would do more to drive a wedge in between Britain and her colonists more so than any other event up to that point in history. During the Seven Years War Britains national debt nearly doubled and the colonies would shoulder a good portion of the burden of paying it off. But the cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britains debt.