British officials grew angry and impatient with their colonial subjects during the seven years' war partly because
a. improved colonial officers, like george washington, looked down on ordinary british soldiers.
b. many of the colonists favored a french victory.
c. many of the colonists refused to provide funds to support the conflict and their own defense.
d. fewer than five thousand colonial recruits fought by the end of the war.
e. the colonists almost unanimously refused to fight beyond the boundaries of their own colony.