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Seven years War

Seven Years' War
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Clockwise from top left: the Battle of Plassey (23 June 1757); the Battle of Carillon (6–8 July 1758); the Battle of Zorndorf (25 August 1758); the Battle of Kunersdorf (12 August 1759).
Date 1754/56–1763
Location Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia
Result
Territorial
changes

Status quo ante bellum in Europe. Transfer of colonial possessions between Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal.

Belligerents

 Great Britain

 Prussia
Portugal Portugal (from 1762)
Province of Hanover Hanover
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Iroquois Confederacy
Hesse-Kassel

Schaumburg-Lippe

 France

Habsburg Monarchy Holy Roman Empire:

 Russia (until 1762)
Spain Spain (from 1762)
Sweden Sweden (1757–62)
Abenaki Confederacy
Mughal Empire (from 1757)
Commanders and leaders

Kingdom of Great BritainProvince of Hanover George II (until 1760)
Kingdom of Great BritainProvince of Hanover George III (from 1760)

Kingdom of Prussia Frederick II

King Joseph I

Province of Hanover Duke Ferdinand

Kingdom of France King Louis XV

Habsburg Monarchy Empress Maria Theresa

Electorate of Saxony Augustus III

Bavaria Maximilian III Joseph Russian Empire Empress Elizabeth (until 1762)
Russian Empire Emperor Peter III (from 1762)

Sweden King Adolph Frederick

Spain King Charles III

Alamgir II (to 1759)
Shah Alam II (from 1759)


Anglo-Prusso-Portuguese Coalition victory

Status quo ante bellum in Europe. Transfer of colonial possessions between Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal.

 Great Britain

 Prussia
Portugal Portugal (from 1762)
Province of Hanover Hanover
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Iroquois Confederacy
Hesse-Kassel


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