First Rhenish War | |||||||||
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Part of the Rhenish Wars and the European Unification | |||||||||
Clockwise from top left:
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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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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.
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