Seven Years’ War my man, i gotchu
In 1642 one Blaise Pascal created a device that could perform arithmetic operations with just two numbers. ... The inspiration for Pascal's calculator, arithmetic machine or Pascaline, was his frustration with the laborious nature of arithmetical calculations his father had to perform as the supervisor of taxes in Rouen.
The British needed to pay off debt from the French and Indian war
That would be John Quincy Adams
