| 单词 | seven years war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSeven Years War Seven Years War n. (with the) a war (1756–63) in which Britain, Prussia, and Hanover contended against Austria, France, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and Spain.The main issues of the war were the struggle between Britain and France for supremacy overseas, and that between Prussia and Austria for the domination of Germany. The British made substantial gains over France abroad, capturing French Canada and undermining French influence in India. The war was ended by the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg in 1763, leaving Britain the supreme European naval and colonial power and Prussia in an appreciably stronger position than before in central Europe. [Compare German siebenjähriger Krieg (1768 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 1775 Politician's Dict. I. 275 (heading) Extraordinary expence in France on account of the seven years war. 1788 J. Towers Mem. Frederick III of Prussia II. 325 Thus ended, what is called in Germany, The Seven Years War. 2010 G. Corrigan Second World War (2013) 3 It would be perfectly sound..to nominate the Seven Years War as the First World War, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars as the Second, and the Kaiser's War the Third. < as lemmas |
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