Frae Wikipedia, the free beuk o knawledge
Seven Years' War
|
---|
Clockwise frae tap left: the
Battle o Plassey
(23 June 1757); the
Battle o Carillon
(6?8 July 1758); the
Battle o Zorndorf
(25 August 1758); the
Battle o Kunersdorf
(12 August 1759).
|
|
Belligerents
|
---|
Great Breetain
Proushie
Portugal
(from 1762)
Hanover
Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel
Hesse-Kassel
Schaumburg-Lippe
Iroquois Confederacy
|
Fraunce
Haly Roman Empire
:
Roushie
(till 1762)
Spain
(from 1762)
Sweden
(1757?62)
Mughal Empire
(frae 1757)
Abenaki Confederacy
|
Commanders an leaders
|
---|
George II
(personal union)
(until 1760)
George III
(personal union)
(frae 1760)
William Pitt
Frederick II
Joseph I
|
Louis XV
Duc de Choiseul
Maria Theresa
Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz
Elizabeth
(till 1762)
Peter III
(frae 1762)
Charles III
Adolph Frederick
Alamgir II
(tae 1759)
Shah Alam II
(frae 1759)
|
Casualties an losses
|
---|
180,000 deid
80,000 desertit
33,000 civilians killed
[3]
|
350,000
French losses
- Tot losses
- 200,000 deid, woundit or missin
- 80,000 capturt
- 70,000 desertit
373,588
Austrick losses
- Tot losses
- 32,622 killed in action
- 93,404 dee'd o wounds or disease
- 19,592 missin
- 17,388 disabled
- 70,000 slichtly woundit
- 78,360 capturt
- 62,222 desertit
|
The
Seiven Years' War
wis a
global conflict
focht atween 1756 an 1763. It involved ivery European
great pouer
o the time an spanned five continents, affectin Europe, the Americas, Wast Africae, Indie, and the Philippines.
Soorces
- Clodfelter, M. (2017).
Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015
(4th ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
ISBN
978-0786474707
.
CS1 maint: ref=harv (
link
)
- Speelman, P.J. (2012). Danley, M.H.; Speelman, P.J. (eds.).
The Seven Years’ War: Global Views
. Brill.
ISBN
978-90-04-23408-6
.
CS1 maint: ref=harv (
link
)