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The battle for America involved a number of groups, including Native Americans, and Spanish, French, and British colonists. By the time the British won the French and Indian War (51) to secure the colonists’ defense, the colonists, already chafing under British rule, felt secure enough to sever the ties that bound them to the mother country, starting the Revolution and then in 1776 issuing the Declaration of Independence (54). Although that document proclaimed the equality of “all men,” the American founders clearly did not include African Americans, Native Americans, or women in that category.