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Seven Years' War

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Noun1.Seven Years' War - a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (1756-1763); Britain and Prussia got the better of it
battle of Minden, Minden - a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French
battle of Rossbach, Rossbach - a battle in the Seven Years' War (1757); Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated the armies of France and Austria
French and Indian War - a war in North America between France and Britain (both aided by American Indian tribes); 1755-1760


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Rebecca looks to me as if she'd been through the Seven Years' War.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
Since that time two or three generations of men had passed away, but they had increased and multiplied with unexampled rapidity; and the land itself had been the recent theatre of a ferocious and bloody seven years' war between the two most powerful and most civilized nations of Europe contending for the possession of this continent.
John Quincy Adams,"Orations" by Adams, John Quincy View in context
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