Why were the British and French fighting? Outcome?

The french and Indian war was fought between France and Great Britain over land that is now The United States. Britain won the land from France. (Hence the debt he was in that resulted in the king taxing the colonists)

Explanation:

France and its colonists and Indian allies fought against Britain, its colonists and Indian allies. The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.