"Diplomacy Without Arms is Like a Concert Without a Score" - Frederick II of Prussia

✯ The Colonies: The Frontier & A List of Grievances ✯

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The Frontier with Indian Lands & French Colonies, December of 1756 | For nearly three years, since Colonel Washington’s skirmish in the Ohio River Valley, the Kingdom of Great Britain and her archrival, the Kingdom of France, have been locked in an armed confrontation along the vast frontiers of the continent of North America. For over a century, both nations have been in the business of settling the vast, and at times, inhospitable landscape of North America, as well as in the business of removing each other from this virgin land. This virgin land which us self-made Americans now call home. Although we are Englishmen and British citizens, this America is our home. Our diverse history in only just over a century on this continent has begun the process of an identity for our new people. Our kindred blood, common faith and language, and well-regarded principles requires our loyalty to the Mother Country, and so we have demonstrated in this war. Our colonies united have risen nearly 25,000 men, just as much as the British Army, in this grand conflict to combat the French from the shores which are rightfully ours. Not only must we remove the French from these shores, but also must we civilize the savage tribal natives which have inhabited this continent before our forefathers’ discovery and consequent arrival for permanent settlement. It is required of us for our very survival in our home to liberate our acclaimed lands, and remove those from the infestation of the tribals, and as such we shall do.
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Albany, Province of New York, June & July of 1754 | Almost three years ago, with the start of the frontier war with France and their native allies, the Crown, in cooperation with the leaderships of the individual thirteen colonies, organized what would become the Albany Congress. The Congress was formed to organize the Colonies in this time of war, to pool resources and other such material and create an efficient leadership for the colonial forces in the war. However, what would come out of the Congress, proposed by Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, is the Albany Plan. The Plan lays out the principles behind and rationale for a union of the thirteen American colonies. Although the Plan was rejected by both the respective legislatures of the Thirteen Colonies, who saw the prospect of a central government over them as an imposing idea. The Crown rejected the Plan based on the possibility of an increased political and economic influence and power of the colonies, wishing to prevent what may be inevitable: Britain may one day live in the shadow of America. The latter’s population is growing much faster, as well as her economy and power, which Britain wishes to stem. The rejection and abject principle behind the Crown’s decision has deepened the list of grievances maintained by the colonists in their relationship with Great Britain. The Colonies and the Crown already maintain a difficult relationship, and wounds have only grown deeper after the obvious attempt to stem colonial power after the rejection of the Albany Plan by the Crown.
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Signed,

• His Excellency, Acting Governor Spencer Phips of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
  
• His Excellency, Governor Benning Wentworth of the Province of New Hampshire
  
• His Excellency, Governor Stephen Hopkins of the Colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
  
• His Excellency, Governor Thomas Fitch of the Colony of Connecticut
  
• His Excellency, Governor Charles Hardy of the Province of New York
  
• His Excellency, Governor Jonathan Belcher of the Province of New Jersey
  
• His Excellency, Governor William Denny of the Province of Pennsylvania
  
• His Excellency, Governor Horatio Sharpe of the Province of Maryland
  
• His Excellency, Governor John Campbell, 4th Earl Loudon, of the Colony of Virginia
  
• His Excellency, Governor Arthur Dobbs of the Province of North Carolina
  
• His Excellency, Governor William H. Lyttleton of the Province of South Carolina
  
• His Excellency, Governor John Reynolds of the Province of Georgia

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