Results of the Seven Year War

Introduction

     In 1756, conflict smashed out between France and Great Britain. In North America, hostilities between American and Canadian colonists had erupted two years previously. The conflict directed to the drop of New France. The Seven Years' War was a foremost infantry confrontation that continued from 1756 until the deduction of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris, in 1763. It engaged all of the foremost European forces of the period. Because of its international environment, it has been recounted as the "first World War".[1] It produced in some 900,000 to 1,400,000 killings and important alterations in the balance of power and territories of some of the participants. (Dull, 15)

 

Results of the Seven Year War

The conflict pitted Prussia and Great Britain and a coalition of lesser German states contrary to an coalition comprising of Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony. Russia for the time being altered edges in the subsequent phases of the war. Portugal (on the edge of Great Britain) and Spain (on the edge of France) went into the confrontation subsequent, and a force from the neutral Dutch Republic was assaulted in India. (Dull, 15) Fighting between Great Britain, France, and their respective partners in North America had broken out in 1754, two years before the general confrontation, as part of an Imperial rivalry. The battling in North America is renowned in the United States as the French and Indian War and in Quebec as the "War of Conquest". (Dull, 15)

War in Europe started in 1756 with the French siege of British Minorca in the Mediterranean Sea, and Frederick the Great of Prussia's attack of Saxony on the countries which furthermore distressed the solidly established Pragmatic Sanction put in location by Charles VI of Austria. Despite being the major theatre of conflict, the European confrontation produced in a bloody stalemate which did little to change the pre-war rank quo, while its penalties in Asia and the Americas were broader extending and longer lasting. Concessions made in the 1763 Treaty of Paris completed France's place as a foremost colonial power in the Americas (where it lost all assertion to land in North America east of the Mississippi River along with what is now Canada, in supplement to some West Indian islands). (Fish, 18) Prussia verified its place in the ranks of the large European forces, keeping the previously Austrian province of Silesia. Great Britain reinforced its territories in India and North America, affirming its rank as the superior colonial power.

In Europe, the confrontation pitted Great Britain (allied with Prussia and Hanover) contrary to France, which was sustained by Austria, Sweden, Saxony, (Fish, 18) Russia and Spain. In America and Asia, British colonies battled French colonies. New France and New England battled each other for ownership of the countries and command of the fur trade. Although distinct, the confrontations between the two colonies were exactly attached to the triumphs or beatings of the Motherland. Though the Seven Years War formally started in 1756 in Europe, hostilities had ...