The Significance Of The Seven Year's War

The seven years war is a very historical event for many reasons, and should be studied at schools around the world. The seven years war was basically the first world war. In the early 1750s, French explorers claimed what they called new France. Although the French already had a huge amount of land they still expanded into the Ohio River valley. The Seven Year's War had many land changes between Britain, France, Spain, and the natives in North America.
French colonist started to move farther and farther west. British traders dealing mainly in fur, had crossed the into the Ohio River Valley. This land was already claimed by both the British colonies and France. The French explorer LaSalle had claimed New France “a huge area of land”. All of the Ohio River Valley was not part of LaSalle's claim. Gradually the French began to move into all of the Ohio River Valley. Even though the French had claimed this huge amount of land, there were very few French farmers living in New France. Most of the French men were fur traders. They traded for furs with the American Indians. The furs were then bought by French trading companies who sold them in Europe. For many of the French fur
traders had good relations with the Indians for a long time.
During the seven years war there was multiple battles that had historical purpose including Battle of Prague, May 6 1757.
Frederick the Great decided to start his campaign in 1757 with 64,000 men. Frederick ordered a general advance, which soon slowed down in relentless fighting, and the day was only saved when Frederick sent his men at both Austrian wings, forcing the Austrians to flee back into the city of Prague, which Frederick. Both sides lost over 10,000 men. The bloodiest battle of the War was the Battle of Zorndorf, August 25 1758. A 40,000 strong Russian army besieging Kustrin (modern Kostrzyn), was attacked and defeated by a 25,000 strong Prussian army led by Frederick the Great, which after a day of fierce fighting forced the Russians to retreat. Both sides suffered over 10,000
casualties.
On August 15th 1760 the bank of the Katzbach River in Northern Silesia. Prussians had 30,000 men and 74 heavy guns their general King Frederick II went against an Imperial Austrian Army of Marshal Daun commanding comprising the various nationalities that made up the Austrian Army had 6,000 men: General Loudon’s contingent 25,000. At the end of the battle The Prussians had became on top.
In the Battle of Torgau on November 3 1760, King Frederick the Great of the Prussian army fought a larger Austrian with the command of Field Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun. In late October, Daun slipped out of Silesia and moved west. When his government ordered him to stand and fight the Prussians, Daun selected a position.The battle left both sides exhausted. After losing as much if not more men than its enemy, Prussia was again severely weakened. However, without the of a decisive victory against the Prussians, and with dwindling financial ressources, Austria was also losing much of its offensive power.[8] After the campaign of 1760, it had to reduce the size of its army, which left little hope of crushing Prussia without the help of Russia, which withdrew in 1762.[9] For the Austrians, the battle was hence a severe psychological blow that decreased their hope of winning a decisive victory.
The Battle of Wilhelmsthal/Wilhelmstadt was fought on June 24 1762 War between on one side the allied forces of British, Prussian, Hanover, Brunswick and Hessian troops under the command of the Duke of Brunswick against the French. Once again, the French threatened Hanover, so the Allies maneuvered around the French, surrounded the invasion force, and forced them to retreat. It was the last major action fought by his force before the Peace of Paris brought an end to the war.
For Britain the war started poorly, they suffered many deaths from the plague, and from France in North America. Britain was hastily quickly forced to make a new alliance with Prussia. For the next few years the two nations were going against a growing number of enemy powers led by France. After a period of weakness coming from their government. After the war, Britain gained the territory of New France and French Canada. Great Britain was one of the main groups in the Seven Years War which lasted between 1756 and 1763. Britain emerged from the war as one of the world's leading colonial power, having many new territories Britain established itself as the world's naval power houses.The British victory in the war planted a base for Britain and later was in the American War of Independence.
France had one of the leading roles in the Seven Years' War. France entered the war with hopes of a victory, both in Europe against Prussia. While the first years of the war were successful for the French, in 1759 they suffered defeats on several grounds. In an effort to keep their losses to a minimum, France decided to make a alliance with their neighbor, Spain, in 1761. Even after this the French continued to suffer defeats. eventually forcing them to sue for peace. The 1763 Treaty of Paris confirmed the loss of French land in North America and Asia to the British. France also finished the war with very heavy debts, which they struggled to repay. Spain agreed with France to attack Portugal which remained neutral, but which was an important economical ally of Great Britain. France hoped that this scare away British forces, now directed against France. Spain invaded Portugal, capturing one of their cities, Great Britain sent a force of thousands of men to Portugal, but nothing was achieved. The British could now attack the Spanish colonies. One and a half months later, the British took Manila, which meant the loss of both the capitals of the Spanish West Indies and the Spanish East Indies, a serious loss for Spain. Though most of the North American fighting ended in 1760, when the Marquis de Vaudreuil surrendered. The 7 years war officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on February 10, 1763. The treaty made France's lose all its North American possessions (all of Canada was declared Britain's) except two small islands off of Newfoundland. This was the beginning of British dominance outside Europe. Britain also gained control of French Canada, they were French-speaking, Roman Catholic residents. The Europeans were settled by the Treaty of Hubertusburg on February 15, 1763.