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[rws591]

New John Jenkins conflict info. Sorry if some one already posted but i didnt see it.



THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR 1756-1762

The Seven Years' War was essentially a continuation of an earlier conflict,

the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48).

The principal combatants were still Austria, Britain, France, Prussia, and Russia,

but the most important difference was that the Seven Years' War was truly a global war, which was fought

in North America, Europe, the Caribbean and India.

This became the closest thing to total war, years before the First World War.

The most tangible outcome of the war was the end of France's power in the Americas, and

the emergence of Great Britain as the most powerful colonial power in the world

http://johnjenkinsdesigns.com/54mmFigs.htm

 

[Robert E. Lee]

The Seven years war was the world wide name for the French and Indian wars

 

[rws591]

sorry guys

 

[OzDigger]

Here's some relevant info from Wikipedia, that terrific online reference:

In Canada and the United Kingdom, the Seven Years' War is used to describe the North American conflict as well as the European and Asian conflicts. In French Canada, however, the term War of the Conquest is commonly used. The conflict in India is termed the Third Carnatic War while the fighting between Prussia and Austria is called the Third Silesian War.

While most U.S.-based historians refer to the conflict as the Seven Years' War regardless of the theatre involved (such as Fred Anderson in A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers & Society in the Seven Year's War), non-scholars often use the term to refer only to the European portions of the conflict (1756–1763), not the nine-year North American conflict or the Indian campaigns which lasted 15 years (including Pontiac's Rebellion), which are known as the French and Indian War. The latter name arises from the fact that the British fought against the French and most Native American Nations, though some Nations did fight alongside the British.

 

[Robert E. Lee]

But it was still part of the same world wide conflict