Frederick the Great has become a common name but this was only the beginning, as a great monarch cannot know peace for long.

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Driven by antagonism between the great world powers of the 18th century over colonial interests, The Seven Years War raged from Europe to North America and across the world’s oceans. But in ...

When the Seven Years’ War ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Britain had secured the whole of the Atlantic coast of North America, and had also triumphed in India and the Caribbean.

England and France battle each other in the Seven Years' War, a conflict that begins as a clash between les Canadiens and land-hungry American settlers in the Ohio Valley and becomes a world war ...