The Seven Years’ War was caused by Britain’s need for expansion and resulted in devastating debt, the humiliation of the French, and soured relations between the British and its colonies ultimately leading to the American Revolution.

The Seven Years’ War was not merely an exercise in combat and campaigns, but a struggle for survival and hegemony that strained the resources of the greatest European powers in every corner of the globe, and generated a complex web of proposed, theoretical and actual commitments taxing the economic, political, and diplomatic capacities of the most talented ministers and soldiers throughout the Euro-Atlantic world.