The Seven-years wars
After France and Prussia won, the War of the Austrian Succession ended with the Excessapel Treaty signed in 1748. However, as both sides could not accept this result, war preparations started again. With the alliance between Britain and Prussia and the alliance with France, Austria-Habsburgs, polarization began again in Europe. As a result of this, the struggle of Austria and Prussia on German soil increased even more.
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Prussian king II. Friedrich did, attacking Dresden, the center of Saxony, in 1756, capturing the city and defeating Austria in the Prague Conflict. Although Friedrich achieved his goals, he was defeated the next year and withdrew from Bohemia. II. After Friedrich's move, Sweden and Russia attacked East Prussia, and as a result, the Russians had significant success against Prussia. At the same time, France's move was to attack Silesia. II. Although Friedrich won this attack, the British defeated the French on 21 June 1758 and II. They ensured the withdrawal of Friedrich from this region. However, when Prussia was defeated by the Austrian-Russian army on August 12, 1759, its military resources were exhausted.
With the death of Tsaritsa in December 1762, the throne was not hostile to Prussia. With the passing of Peter II, the Prussian king. Friedrich decided to make a peace deal with Russia. The mediation of the peace treaty signed between Prussia and Sweden was also the second. Petro did it. With the withdrawal of Russia and Sweden, the French-Austrian alliance had to ask for peace.
At the end of the war, Britain and Prussia were the winners of this war, and the borders were redrawn in the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Huberttusburg on 10 February 1763.
The French Revolutions began when France, which weakened economically and politically as a result of the Seven Years' War, lost its colonies in North America and India to England. Britain expanded its borders by acquiring more colonies, but because it wanted to get the cost of the war from the colonies in America through taxes, 13 colonies united and declared war on Britain. Prussia took it to Silesia with the Huberttusburg Treaty. Prussia, which got stronger as Europe became the strongest land state, had a say in world politics.
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