The Seven Years’ War, or the French and Indian War as it is known in North America, pitted Britain and Prussia against ... and established the British Empire, whose vast resource base fuelled the ...

In fact, Paul Mapp describes the North ... empire is trying to have a closed market, and the British want into it, too. Legally or illegally, they want in.” French and British ships had another ...

As we celebrate our 243rd Independence Day, and the resultant American empire that would come to dominate the modern world, it’s worth considering the 18th-century British Empire against which ...

This fascinating account of the war that paved the way for American independence and the transformation of the British Empire is all the more remarkable given its competition. The Seven Years' War (or ...

Fought between 1754 and 1763, the misleadingly named Seven Years' War (often called the French and Indian War in North America ... the Holy Roman Empire, and Spain. In the end, Great Britain ...

In 1775, war broke out between the British and the American colonists. By 1776, the colonists had declared themselves independent and in 1783, following a prolonged and bloody war, Britain was ...

The British monarch is often depicted ... When the war ended in 1763, Britain gained a newly enlarged empire with land in North America that stretched all the way to the Mississippi River.