Driven by antagonism between the great world powers of the 18th century over colonial interests, The Seven Years War raged from Europe to North America and across the world’s oceans. But in ...

Hailed as the first global conflict, Britain secures control of huge colonial territories in the Americas. Video: A history of Scotland: The Price of Progress.

Letters confiscated by Britain's Royal Navy before they reached French sailors during the Seven Years' War have been opened for the first time. Written in 1757-8, they were sent by loved ones for ...

England and France battle each other in the Seven Years' War, a conflict that begins as a clash between les Canadiens and land-hungry American settlers in the Ohio Valley and becomes a world war ...