WI: The Peace of '54

POD: February 1754- Lt. Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia, with the goal of avoiding war, agrees to meet personally with French general Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre over the issue of French claims to portions of Virginia. The meetings begin in March and are surprisingly successful and hailed by many for avoiding a likely large and costly war. In the end it is decided that British Virginia will pay the approx. equivalent of 50 cents per acre claimed by France. France agrees as they fear a war with the British is unlikely to make many gains for the French.

What would happen next? Without the French and Indian War much of the taxation without representation that caused the American Revolution would not have happened, so would there have still been a revolution? Would it perhaps have come later down the line?
 
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