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Quick Facts First Rhenish War, Date ...
First Rhenish War | |||||||||
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Part of the Rhenish Wars and the European Unification | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Saarland |
Rhineland | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
George II (1756–1760) George III (1760–1763) Jeffery Amherst Admiral Hawke Marquess of Granby Edward Braddock † James Wolfe † John Byng George Washington Frederick II von Dohna Heinrich von Manteuffel (POW) Joseph I Duke Ferdinand Schaumburg-Lippe Friedrich von Spörcken Peter III Tanacharison Sayenqueraghta |
Louis XV Killbuck Shingas Pontiac | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
Great Britain: 300,000 (total mobilized) 210,000 (peak)[3] |
France: 1,000,000 (total mobilized)[4] 250,000 (peak)[5] | ||||||||
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- "British History in depth: Was the American Revolution Inevitable?". BBC History. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
In 1763, Americans joyously celebrated the British victory in the Seven Years' War, revelling in their identity as Britons and jealously guarding their much-celebrated rights which they believed they possessed by virtue of membership in what they saw as the world's greatest empire.
- Wilson 2008, p. 119. sfn error: no target: CITEREFWilson2008 (help)
- Riley, James C. (1986). The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France: The Economic and Financial Toll Princeton University Press, p. 78.
- Hochedlinger (2003), p. 298. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFHochedlinger2003 (help)
- Clodfelter (2017), p. 85. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFClodfelter2017 (help)
- Speelman (2012), p. 524; of which 20,000 by the Russians. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFSpeelman2012 (help)
- McLeod, A. B. (2012). British Naval Captains of the Seven Years' War: The View from the Quarterdeck Boydell Press, p. 90.
- Speelman (2012), p. 524. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFSpeelman2012 (help)
- "Disappointed, facing incredible resistance and losing everything in the field, the Spaniards abandoned the fight and left behind twenty-five thousand men [in Portugal] ..." In Henry, Isabelle – Dumouriez: Général de la Révolution (1739–1823), L'Harmattan, Paris, 2002, p. 87.
- Marley (2008), p. 440 harvp error: no target: CITEREFMarley2008 (help) gives figures of 3,800 killed or dead from sickness and 5,000 captured at the Siege of Havana.