The History of the 7 Years War
The real first world war, this often overlooked conflict saw action in Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Africa, India, and the Philippines. Its outcome also set the stage for many of the major events that would reshape the world in the coming decades.
Episodes
14 episodes
The Noose Tightens: Europe Prepares to Break Prussia| 1757 (Episode 13)
Send us a message!sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comBefore the armies march… before the battles are fought… before the first shots echo across Bohemia…The outcome of the war is already being imagined.In this e...
The March Into Saxony: Frederick Strikes First | 1757 (Episode 12)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comFrederick of Prussia is surrounded.Austria wants Silesia back. France has changed sides. Russia is preparing to march. And from Berlin, it all looks le...
The War at a Standstill: The State of the Conflict | 1756 (Episode 11)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comBy the end of 1756, what had begun as a series of regional conflicts was rapidly becoming something far larger.In this episode, we pause the narrative ...
The Sugar Islands: War in the Caribbean | 1756 (Episode 10)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comIn the mid-eighteenth century, the Caribbean was one of the most valuable regions in the world.Small islands covered in sugar plantations generated imm...
The Nawab and the Company: Bengal Ignites | 1756 (Episode 9)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comBefore Europe fully understands what kind of war this will be, Bengal is already on fire.In 1756, one of the richest provinces in the world stands at t...
The East India Company Goes to War (Supplemental) | 1756
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comBefore the Seven Year's War reaches India in fulll, one of its most important combatants is already in place- and it isn't a government. this supplemental epi...
Montcalm Seizes the Initiative | 1756 (Episode 8)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comIn the aftermath of Braddock's defeat, the war in North America stalls. British authority fragments, colonial governments resist coordination, and Commander-i...
To Encourage the Others: Britain’s Strategy Unravels | 1756 (Episode 7)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comBritain thought it could glide through 1756 on sea power and habit. Minorca proved otherwise. We follow the doomed relief of Fort St. Philip from the Admiralt...
Old Enemies, New Friends: The Diplomatic Revolution | 1756 (Episode 6)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comIn this episode, we watch Europe's diplomatic world turn upside down. For more than two centuries, the bourbon kings of France and the Hapsburg emperors of Au...
The War Ignites: In Which the Match Finds the Powder | 1755 (Episode 5)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comA neat plan met a messy world. We follow the Empire’s triangular strategy for 1755—Crown Point, Niagara, and Beauséjour—and watch how fog, friction, and human...
Braddock’s Folly: An Excellent Plan, In Theory | 1755 (Episode 4)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comIn 1755, Britain decided to move its collnnia problem he od fashioned way- by sending a general. Major General Edward Braddock, veteran ion the Coldstre...
Colonial Discord: In Which Cooperation Fails, Briefly | 1754 (Episode 3)
Send us a message at - sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.comIn the summer of 1754, as French forts crept ever closer to the contested frontiers of North America, representatives from seven British colonies gathered at ...