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/sˈɛvən jɪrz wɔr/ Listen

Seven Years' War

noun

A war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (1756-1763); Britain and Prussia got the better of it.

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... of life included four or five years' service in the Hampshire Militia, in which corps Suzanne's lover became a captain, the regiment being embodied during the period of the Seven Years' War. ...

— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... general who, after winning fame in the Seven Years' War, met with disaster when attempting to assist the Austrians against the ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... the Sultan. Due merely to incompetent generals, it need not have been permanent, had not Frederick the Great created a diversion from the north. By the time that the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War were over, that expansion southwards which had seemed so certain was irrevocably postponed. The organisation of fresh "Military Frontiers," the colonisation of waste lands in South Hungary—all was admirable so far as it went, but was already ...

— The War and Democracy • R.W. Seton-Watson, J. Dover Wilson, Alfred E. Zimmern,

... family circle was, in a measure, dispersed at the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756. The French proceeded to invade Hanover, which, it will be remembered, belonged at this time to the British dominions. Young William Herschel had already obtained the position of a regular performer in the regimental ...

— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball

... Indian War.—Thus it happened that the shot which opened the Seven Years' War, known in America as the French and Indian War, was fired in the wilds of Pennsylvania. There began the conflict that spread to Europe and even Asia and finally involved England and Prussia, on the one side, and France, Austria, Spain, and minor powers ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

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