Rachel, could you give us some more sense of what was going on

in this run up? Absolutely, Polly.

So I think the overarching concern for both colonists and the majority of the continent's inhabitants who are Native American is land.

So there are several events that relate to quest for land, land hunger, and land dispute that we probably want to know about to kind of have a fuller appreciation of everything that's going on.

So in the first instance, there is a 1762 visit by a delegation of Cherokees to England following the end of the Anglo-Cherokee War.

We can absolutely see this as a kind of upsurge in diplomacy between Cherokees and British people, but it's also a point of continuity because Indigenous leaders have been coming to London for centuries by this point in time.

So this is a kind of attempt to maintain peace.

Rachel, what was this war like? Messy.