George Washington's military experience began in the French and Indian War with a commission as a major in the militia of the British Province of Virginia. In 1753 Washington was sent as an ambassador from the British crown to the French officials and Indians as far north as present-day Erie, Pennsylvania.
Answer: in the words of Thanos "a small price to pay for salvation" I mean when the south lost the civil war it allowed the slaves to be set freed if the south would've won there would be slaves to this day