The History of the 7 Years War

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message! sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com Before 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 episode, we step back from the battlefield to examine the forces gathering against Frederick II of Prussia—and the very real plans being formed to dismantle his kingdom piece...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com Frederick of Prussia is surrounded. Austria wants Silesia back. France has changed sides. Russia is preparing to march. And from Berlin, it all looks less like diplomacy—and more like a trap. So Frederick makes a decision. In August of 1756, he invades Saxony, launching what he believes will be a short, decisive war—one that w...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com By 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 to take a global snapshot of the war as it stood at the close of the year. From the diplomatic upheaval of Europe’s Diplomatic Revolution , to the frontier fighting in North Am...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com In the mid-eighteenth century, the Caribbean was one of the most valuable regions in the world. Small islands covered in sugar plantations generated immense wealth, drawing the competing empires of Britain, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic into a crowded and volatile imperial chessboard. What had once been a frontier of b...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com Before 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 the intersection of collapsing imperial authority and expanding corporate power. The Mughal Empire still exists in name, but its ability to enforce control has weakened, leaving...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com Before 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 episode introduces the British East India Company: what it was, what it was created to do, and how a private trading company slowly became a political and military...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com In the aftermath of Braddock's defeat, the war in North America stalls. British authority fragments, colonial governments resist coordination, and Commander-in-Cheif John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun focuses on imposing order rather than taking the offensive. Along the frontier, raids multiply, forts stand isolated, and Brit...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com Britain 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 Admiralty’s hedged orders to John Byng’s compromised squadron, then into a battle where geometry, hesitation, and a ten‑minute delay cost Britain the initiative. The French didn’...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com In 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 Austria had defined themselves inn opposition to one another, fighting over Italy, Germany, the Low Countries, and anything else that came within arm's reach. But...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com A 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 choices bent it into something far larger than a frontier war. It starts at sea, where Admiral Edward Boscawen’s strike against a French convoy near Newfoundland capture...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com In 1755, Britain decided to move its collnnia problem he od fashioned way- by sending a general.  Major General Edward Braddock, veteran ion the Coldstream Guards and chosen of the Duke of Cumberland, arrived in Virginia with two regiments of regulars and an unshakable conviction that discipline and geometry could tame a conti...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com In the summer of 1754, as French forts crept ever closer to the contested frontiers of North America, representatives from seven British colonies gathered at Albany, New York, to discuss a problem everyone could see coming- and few seemed eager to solve. The result was the Abany Congress, a rare moment of attempted cooperation...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com Step away from the powdered wigs and marble statues of Europe—the Seven Years' War began in the mud and mosquitoes of the American wilderness. Join us as we trek into the Ohio Country, a forgotten crossroads that sparked global conflict. The Ohio Country wasn't empty forest—it was prime real estate. Rivers connected...

Send us Fan Mail Send us a message at -  sevenyearswarpodcast@gmail.com The world of 1748 balanced precariously on the edge of chaos. The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle had technically ended the War of Austrian Succession, but as we explore in this first episode, it was less a peace treaty and more "like cramming eight angry cats into a sack, tying it shut and walking away." From this uneasy...