Friday, 9 February 2024

The Seven Years' War, explained

The Seven Years' War pitted the major European military powers against each other through a labyrinthian series of alliances and geopolitics, like an 18th-century equivalent of World War I.

What Was the Seven Years' War?

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T he Seven Years' War pitted the major European military powers against each other through a labyrinthian series of alliances and geopolitics, like an 18th-century equivalent of World War I. The factors leading to the war were complex enough that the English author William Makepeace Thackeray wrote, "It would require a greater philosopher and historian than I am to explain the causes of the famous Seven Years' War." Let's piece it together more simply here.

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