When William Pitt became prime minister during the French and Indian War, he
a. ended Parliament's practice of reimbursing the colonies for their war-related expenditures.
b. ordered a full-scale assault on the French West Indies.
c. turned to a strategy of blockade and slow strangling of the French settlements.
d. focused his military strategy on the capture of Montreal and Québec.
e. relied on the British aristocracy for his primary political support.
d
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