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Injuries are therefore frequently, in some part or other of so long a frontier, committed on both sides, resentment provoked, the colonies first engaged, and then the mother countries.
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Franklin highlights the cycle of conflict and retaliation along long frontiers, affecting both colonies and their mother countries.
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