1. One major political controversy involved whether to repay the state's war debt . 2. The plaintiffs were trying to collect a Revolutionary War debt from Georgia. 3. Interest on the war debt had been a major cost in each budget. 4. Accordingly, he strongly favored the federal assumption of the state's revolutionary war debts . 5. His negotiations led to the Mellon-Berenger Agreement for settling war debts . 6. Some States paid off their war debts and others did not. 7. The total pre-war debt of Empire was $ 716, 000, 000. 8. Abroad, England and France were pushing to cancel their war debts . 9. At the end of the war, all of the State's war debt was repudiated. 10. In 1783, the pirates, and their foreign-financed Revolutionary War debts unpaid and accruing interest.