The Seiven Years' War wis a global conflict focht atween 1756 an 1763. It involved ivery European great pouer o the time an spanned five continents, affectin Europe, the Americas, Wast Africae, Indie, and the Philippines.
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Seven Years' War |
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![Thumb](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Seven_Years%27_War_Collage.jpg/300px-Seven_Years%27_War_Collage.jpg) Clockwise frae tap left: the Battle o Plassey (23 June 1757); the Battle o Carillon (6–8 July 1758); the Battle o Zorndorf (25 August 1758); the Battle o Kunersdorf (12 August 1759). |
Date | 17 Mey 1756 – 15 Februar 1763 (1756-05-17 – 1763-02-15) (6 years, 8 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) |
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Location | Europe, the Americas, Africae, Asie |
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Result |
Anglo-Prusso-Portuguese Coaleetion veectory* Treaty o Saunt Petersburg (1762)* Treaty o Hamburg (1762)* Treaty o Paris (1763)* Treaty of Hubertusburg (1763) |
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Territorial changes |
Status quo ante bellum in Europe. Transfer o colonial possessions atween Great Breetain, Fraunce, Spain, an Portugal.
- Fraunce cedes its possessions east o the Mississippi River, Ontario (except Saint-Pierre an Miquelon), the island o Grenada, an the Northren Circars in Indie tae Great Breetain.
- Fraunce cedes Louisiana an its territory wast o the Mississippi River tae Spain.
- Spain cedes Florida to Great Britain.
- Fower "neutral" Caribbean islands dividit atween Breetain (St. Vincent, Tobago, Dominica) an Fraunce (St. Lucia)
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Belligerents |
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Great Breetain
Proushie
Portugal (from 1762)
Hanover
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Hesse-Kassel
Schaumburg-Lippe Iroquois Confederacy |
Fraunce
New Fraunce
Haly Roman Empire:
Roushie (till 1762)
Spain
(from 1762)
Sweden (1757–62)
Mughal Empire (frae 1757) Abenaki Confederacy |
Commanders an leaders |
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![Kinrick o Great Breetain](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png) George II (personal union)
(until 1760)
![Kinrick o Great Breetain](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png) George III (personal union) (frae 1760)
William Pitt
Frederick II
Joseph I |
Louis XV
Duc de Choiseul
Maria Theresa
Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz
Elizabeth (till 1762)
Peter III (frae 1762)
Charles III
Adolph Frederick
Alamgir II (tae 1759)
Shah Alam II (frae 1759) |
Casualties an losses |
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180,000 deid 80,000 desertit 33,000 civilians killed[3] |
350,000
French losses
- Tot losses
- 200,000 deid, woundit or missin
- 80,000 capturt
- 70,000 desertit
373,588
Austrick losses
- Tot losses
- 32,622 killed in action
- 93,404 dee'd o wounds or disease
- 19,592 missin
- 17,388 disabled
- 70,000 slichtly woundit
- 78,360 capturt
- 62,222 desertit
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Soorces
- Clodfelter, M. (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015 (4th ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0786474707.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Speelman, P.J. (2012). Danley, M.H.; Speelman, P.J. (eds.). The Seven Years’ War: Global Views. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-23408-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)