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''To add something new to this wonderful year''
''Hearts of Oak are our ships, Jolly Tars are our men''
''We always are ready, steady boys steady''
{{quote|''I'm Frederick the Great, I am. Frederick the Great I am, I am.''
''I got married to a woman I don't love. 'Cause war is all I've time for thinking of''
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From 1756-1763 this was one of the most important wars in history and the largest of the classical eighteenth century style power struggles. It was in a way a bipolar war, consisting of the struggle between various nations for control of Central Europe, and the struggle between Britain and France for control of overseas markets and colonies. It led both to [[The American Revolution]] and to the founding of [[The British Empire]] . It was also arguably the beginning of the decline of France and the acceptance of Prussia as a Great Power. There was fighting in several theaters including Europe, North America, and India. One could argue that this, not [[World War I]], was the first truly global war.
Often referred to in the US as the French and Indian War. It also marked a crucial turning point in the history of [[Canada]], as the colony of New France was ceded to the British by France, setting the stage for Canada's later development as a bilingual country.
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* [[All the Little Germanies]]
* [[Back in
* [[Badass Army]]: Prussia
** [[Badass Army|Badass Navy]]: England
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: England, curiously enough, had this for Hanover. This was largely because King George II was Elector of Hanover as well.
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: General Wolfe
* [[Brits With Battleships]]
* [[Canucks With Chinooks|Canuks With Canoes]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: At the hard-fought battle of Torgau (1760), Frederick the Great famously or notoriously shouted to his retreating grenadiers: "Dogs, [[Starship Troopers|do you want to live forever?]] Cheaters!" Less well remembered is the soldiers' response: "Old Fritz, no cheating, for 15 Pfennigs (then the daily pay) it's enough for today."
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* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: British Red coats, French White, Austrian White, Prussian Blue, Russian Green, etc. And Yankee whatever they could bring...
* [[Corporal Punishment]]: It was said only 2 things kept the British Army moving: rum and the lash. (They left the sodomy to [[Hello, Sailor!|the Navy]], which didn't mind rum and the lash, either.)
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga. One would expect it to have been such in favor of the British (who brought 18,000 troops, 6000 of which were professional soldiers, to face France's 3,600 strong force of regulars, militia, and indians). It went in favor of France by a large margin. A popular British officer was killed in the opening skirmishes and this led to the British losing nearly 4 times as many men as the French.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The "Miracle of the house of Brandenburg" where Prussia was saved by a [[Succession Crisis]] in Russia
** Nope. The term "Mirakel des Hauses Brandenburg" was actually coined more than two years earlier, when the Russian army, after having devastated the Prussian army at Kunersdorf on the 12th of August 1759, hesitated to march against Berlin and gave Prussia enough time to consolidate its scattered forces.
*** Frederick used it that way in 1759, but later the quote [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|became applied to the death of Empress Elizabeth]], which did have a bigger impact since it took Russia out of the anti-Prussian Alliance.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Empress Maria Theresa was ''really mad'' about Frederick taking Silesia earlier
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Montcalm and Wolfe dying on the Plains of Abraham.
* [[Earth Is a Battlefield]]: The closest any war would be until [[World War I]].
** The wars of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] could make a try for that though.
* [[Elites Are More Glamorous]]: Officers competed for positions in the grenadier and light infantry companies as they were perceived as more elite and thus more likely to fuel advancement.
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Lord Howe was one, killed during the opening skirmishes of the first battle of Ticonderoga. He was immensely popular with the enlisted men. He got the highlanders to wear pants.
* [[Fast Roping]]: The Assault on Quebec
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* [[Heel Face Turn]] / [[Face Heel Turn]] (depending whose side you were on): The Treaty of Saint Petersburg in 1762, when Russia dropped out of the anti-Prussian coalition due to the accession of the <s> Germanophile</s> Borussophile Tsar Peter III.
** Austria and Prussia also swapped alliance systems relative to the last war in a bid to gain more advantage. At the time, this was known as the "Stately Quadrille", the quadrille being a contemporary dance where one changed partners.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: George Washington. Now starring as an officer in the Virginia Colonial forces. Serving in the Kings name and rather incompetent.
** Not necessarily incompetent. He botched his first assignment which was far more responsibility than a subaltern should have(roughly the equivalent of putting a junior officer in the Virginia National Guard in charge of policy during the Cuban Missile Crisis). Latter assignments he performed reasonably if not superbly.
** In a little skirmish in 1760, a Mecklenburger serving with the Swedish army is captured by the Prussian Belling Hussars. [[Colonel Badass|Colonel Belling]], who happens to be a relative of the [[Ensign Newbie|young man]], persuades him to join his regiment. His name? [[Four
** Also in 1760, the newborn son of an artillery officer in the army of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] is nearly lost on the retreat from the advancing Prussians. Luckily he is found by a hussar and returned to his parents. He is August Neidhardt, later known as Neidthard von Gneisenau, Blücher's chief of staff in the Waterloo campaign.
** Also John Stark, here an officer in Rogers Rangers, who went on to become an important American general during the revolution.
* [[Holy Roman Empire]]
* [[I Lied]]: Frederick had said he would abide by the Pragmatic Sanction recognising Maria Theresa's succession, preventing another Silesian war. He didn't.
* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: Between the British regulars in America and the colonial troops, the former mostly regarding the latter as backwoodsy, self-interested incompetents (claimed by some to be the origin of the song "Yankee Doodle", which was originally meant to mock colonial Americans). Of course, this can be seen as [[Foreshadowing]] for what came later...
* [[Lady of War]]: Hapsburg Empress Maria Theresa
* [[Prequel]]: to [[The American Revolution]]
** Also to Pontiac's Uprising.
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* [[The Siege]]: The form of most of the fighting in America took.
* [[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]]: What happened to Rogers Rangers after the St. Francis raid. Indians had captured their boats and many men chose to plunder valuables from the attack instead of food which left them with no quick way home and starving until Rogers took a desperate gamble and managed to reach a fort to send aid back to his men.
* [[Urban Warfare]]: Many of the battles in the Caribbean took this form.
* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: The Highland regiments in the British army.
* [[Warrior Prince]]: Frederick
* [[We Have Reserves]]: Russia ''always'' has reserves.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Compared to the previous wars of the 18th century, especially the War of the Austrian Succession about a decade before, which was almost as global in scale yet hit the [[Reset Button]] at the peace. The Seven Years' War on the other hand changed the world forever.
** Not everywhere - in Europe the result was a confirmation of the result of the War of Austrian Succession, Prussia keeping Silesia and maintining its position as the fifth major European power.
* [[The Wild West]]: the ''old'' Wild West.
* [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]]
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Montcalm
* [[Yanks With Tanks|Yanks With Muskets]]
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: English Admiral John Byng managed to lose a crucial island to the French, mainly by sticking too closely to the official [[Big Book of War|Fighting Instructions]]. He was promptly convicted by the Admiralty of "failing to do his utmost" and executed on his own quarterdeck.
** Cue Voltaire: "In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."
* [[Young Future Famous People]]: George Washington got an [[Early
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* Kenneth Roberts' [[North West Passage]] deals with the fighting in North America.
* ''Der Große König'': A German film made in 1942 to inspire morale by associating Prussian [[Proud Warrior Race|tradition]] with [[Those Wacky Nazis|guess who]] . Ironically the real "Great King"(Frederick the Great) of the title would have thought his alleged spiritual descendants were overlate for an appointment with the [[A Taste of the Lash|Knoutmaster]] .
* ''[[Barry Lyndon]]''
* ''[[
* "Acadian Driftwood", a song by [[The Band]]
* ''Empire Total War'' features the North American theatre of this conflict in its story mode.
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