The SYW makes the BBC front page...

[Count Belisarius]

According to the BBC...

The Seven Years' War was a battle mainly between Britain and France about control of North America and India.

Discuss...


From...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67341309

[Spanner]

So the Beeb's "historian" is an American history undergraduate with failing grades? Everyone knows the SYW was all about the argument over whether schnitzel or sauerkraut was better suited to be the German national meal.

[tim.w]

That's not the BBC's most ambitious historical.revisionism.

[Paul]

I think someone might be mistaking the FIW as the whole rather than part of the SYW

[Count Belisarius]

It was all just a big battle anyway..

[FreddBloggs]

Ummm, other than calling it a battle, not a war, this is always how the British always viewed the SYW, India and North America were the important bits, we were only involved in the european bit as Hanover was threatened. And that was a sideshow as far as Parliament was concerned.

We had profits to make, who ruled Prussia mattered not at all to us, only who ruled Belgium (and the Netherlands).

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Ummm, other than calling it a battle, not a war, this is always how the British always viewed the SYW, India and North America were the important bits, we were only involved in the european bit as Hanover was threatened. And that was a sideshow as far as Parliament was concerned.

We had profits to make, who ruled Prussia mattered not at all to us, only who ruled Belgium (and the Netherlands).

This. Plus, you screw over one Prussian despot and suddenly, you're known for ever as "Perfidious Albion".

The open hostility between George II and his son, Frederick, over whether Britain's interests lay in defending Han(n)over, or "ruling the waves" would eventually establish the bedrock of all future British foreign policy - global trade + balance of power in Europe = financial success.

[Peeler]

How long did the SYW last?

[Panzer21]

How long did the SYW last?

Literally years........☺

Neil

[Ilkley Old School]

I wonder what it was called at the time?