1757
1756 – 1763
A Guerra dos Sete Anos foi uma série de conflitos internacionais que ocorreram entre 1756 e 1763, durante o reinado de Luís XV, entre a França, a Monarquia de Habsburgo e seus aliados, de um lado, e a Inglaterra, Portugal, o Reino da Prússia e o Eleitorado de Hanôver, de outro. Vários fatores desencadearam a guerra: a preocupação das potências europeias com o crescente prestígio e poderio de Frederico II, o Grande, Rei da Prússia; as disputas entre a Monarquia de Habsburgo e o Reino da Prússia pela posse da Silésia, província oriental alemã, que passara ao domínio prussiano em 1742 durante a Guerra de Sucessão Austríaca; e a disputa entre a Grã-Bretanha e a França pelo controle comercial e marítimo das colônias das Índias e da América do Norte. Também foi motivada pela disputa por territórios situados na África, Ásia e América do Norte.
1757
1757
A Batalha de Rossbach ocorreu em 5 de novembro de 1757 durante a Terceira Guerra da Silésia perto da vila de Rossbach (Roßbach), no Eleitorado da Saxônia. Às vezes é chamada de Batalha de, ou em, Reichardtswerben, após uma cidade próxima diferente. Nesta batalha de 90 minutos, Frederico, o Grande, rei da Prússia, derrotou um exército aliado composto por forças francesas aumentadas por um contingente do Reichsarmee do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico. O exército francês e imperial incluía 41 110 homens, opondo-se a uma força prussiana consideravelmente menor de 22 000. Apesar das chances avassaladoras, Frederico conseguiu derrotar os imperiais e os franceses.
1757
1757
The Battle of Leuthen was fought on 5 December 1757 between Frederick the Great's Prussian Army and an Austrian army commanded by Prince Charles of Lorraine and Count Leopold Joseph von Daun. Frederick used maneuver warfare and knowledge of the terrain to rout the larger Austrian force completely. The victory ensured Prussian control of Silesia during the Third Silesian War, which was part of the Seven Years' War.
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1757
1757
A Batalha de Gross-Jägersdorf foi uma vitória da força russa sob o comando do marechal de campo Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin sobre uma força prussiana menor comandada pelo marechal de campo Hans von Lehwaldt, durante a Guerra dos Sete Anos. Esta foi a primeira batalha em que a Rússia se envolveu durante a Guerra dos Sete Anos.
1756
A Batalha de Lobositz, Lovosice ou Lowositz, de 1 de outubro de 1756, foi a batalha de abertura da Terceira Guerra Silesiana, parte da Guerra Dos Sete Anos. Frederico, o Grande, com uma força de 28 000 Prussianos, foi impedido por 33 000 austríacos sob o comando de Maximiliano Ulysses de continuar a sua invasão das planícies boémias, o que forçou Frederico a voltar para o norte, para a Saxónia, ficando lá durante o inverno.
1757
1756
The Battle of Minorca was a fleet action fought on 20 May 1756 between the French and British navies during the Seven Years' War. Fought off Minorca shortly after the war began, it was the opening naval battle of the war's European theatre and resulted in a French strategic victory. The decision by the British fleet's commander, Admiral of the Blue John Byng, to withdraw to Gibraltar led directly to the fall of Minorca. Byng's failure to save Minorca led to a controversial court-martial which resulted in his execution for "failure to do his utmost" to relieve the siege of the British garrison on Minorca.
1757
1757
The Battle of Breslau was fought on 22 November 1757 in Breslau during the Third Silesian War. A Prussian army of 28,000 men fought an Austrian army of 60,000 men. The Prussians held off the Austrian attack, losing 6,000 men to the Austrians' 5,000 men. But one day later the Prussians beat a retreat. Breslau's garrison surrendered on 25 November 1757.
1756
1756
The Battle of Fort Oswego was one in a series of early French victories in the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War won in spite of New France's military vulnerability. During the week of August 10, 1756, a force of regulars and Canadian militia under General Montcalm captured and occupied the British fortifications at Fort Oswego, located at the site of present-day Oswego, New York.
1756
1757
The Siege of Prague was an unsuccessful attempt by a Prussian army led by Frederick the Great to capture the Bohemian city of Prague during the Third Silesian War. It took place in May 1757 immediately after the Battle of Prague. Despite having won that battle, Frederick had lost 14,300 dead, and his severely depleted force was not strong enough to assault Prague. Instead Frederick decided to besiege the city, hoping to force it into submission through lack of supplies. 40,000 Austrian troops were trapped in the city, though they were themselves not strong enough to consider launching a sortie. Frederick attempted to gain intelligence from within Prague by sending the criminal Christian Andreas Käsebier several times into the besieged city.
1757
1756
The siege of Fort St Philip, also known as the siege of Minorca, took place from 20 April to 29 June 1756 during the Seven Years' War. Ceded to Great Britain in 1714 by Spain following the War of the Spanish Succession, its capture by France threatened the British naval position in the Western Mediterranean and it was returned after the Treaty of Paris (1763).
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The raid on Rochefort was a failed British amphibious assault which attempted to capture the French port of Rochefort in September 1757 during the Seven Years' War. The raid pioneered a new tactic of "descents" on the French coast, championed by William Pitt who had taken office a few months earlier. After a number of delays the expedition reached the French coast, capturing the offshore island of Île d'Aix. With the army commander Sir John Mordaunt refusing to attempt a landing, the British force sailed for home. The raid ended in failure, but it was followed by several similar operations in the subsequent years.
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1756
The siege of Calcutta was a battle between the Bengal Subah and the British East India Company on 20 June 1756. The Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, aimed to seize Calcutta to punish the company for the unauthorised construction of fortifications at Fort William. Siraj ud-Daulah caught the Company unprepared and won a decisive victory.
1757
The Battle of Chandannagar was a successful attack on the French Indies Company settlement of Chandernagore by a British force under the command of Robert Clive and Charles Watson on 23 March 1757 during the Seven Years' War and the Third Carnatic war. Chandernagore remained under military occupation by the British until the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which brought an end to the war.
1757
The Battle of Sabbath Day Point took place on 23 July 1757 just off the shore of Sabbath Day Point, Lake George, New York and ended in a French victory. The battle, pitched approximately 450 French and allied Indian forces under the leadership of Ensign de Corbiere of the Troupes de la Marine against 350 New Jersey Blues under the command of Colonel John Parker. Ensign de Corbiere, aware of Parker's plan, ambushed and surrounded Parker's forces as they approached the shore in bateaux. In the ensuing rout Parker lost approximately 250 men with nearly 160 men killed or drowned and the rest taken prisoner. The French reported only one man slightly wounded.