The Original World War: The Seven Years' War And The Seeds Of Revolution

De: Ellis Gaines

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Before the trenches of 1914 or the battles of the 1940s, there was a war that set the entire globe ablaze. This conflict, fought from 1754 to 1763, was the true first world war, a brutal contest for imperial domination that stretched from the wilderness of Pennsylvania to the palaces of India. It was here that the modern world was forged in a crucible of ambition, finance, and gunpowder.

This single, sprawling conflict saw French and British regulars clash on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, while Robert Clive's corporate mercenaries engineered a coup in Bengal. It was a war for the sugar-rich islands of the Caribbean, the slave-trading posts of West Africa, and the very survival of Prussia in the face of a massive European coalition. The battles of this war decided which language you would speak and which empire would shape the future.

Follow the titans of the age, from the brilliant, desperate Frederick the Great, to the visionary William Pitt, who financed a global victory from London. Witness the daring of James Wolfe at Quebec and the brutal, effective tactics of Robert Rogers' Rangers on the American frontier. This is a story of how a few key battles, often fought by flawed men in distant lands, determined the fate of continents.

The war's end was not a conclusion, but the fuse for an even greater explosion. Discover how the staggering cost of this victory bankrupted the British Empire and set it on a collision course with its own American colonies. The Seven Years' War did not just end the French threat; it planted the seeds of the American Revolution.