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The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:17 pm
by 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
Re: The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:21 pm
by 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.
Re: The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:32 pm
by tim.w
That's not the BBC's most ambitious historical.revisionism.
Re: The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:40 pm
by Paul
I think someone might be mistaking the FIW as the whole rather than part of the SYW
Re: The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:43 pm
by Count Belisarius
It was all just a big battle anyway..
Re: The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:16 am
by 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).
Re: The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:43 am
by BaronVonWreckedoften
FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:16 am
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.
Re: The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:59 pm
by Peeler
How long did the SYW last?
Re: The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:44 pm
by Panzer21
Peeler wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:59 pm
How long did the SYW last?
Literally years........☺
Neil
Re: The SYW makes the BBC front page...
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:37 pm
by Ilkley Old School
I wonder what it was called at the time?