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* [[Cossacks]]
* [[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.
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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.
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** 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 Star Badass|Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher]].
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