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East Prussia and Canada, the Caribbean and Silesia, India and the Philippines. The Seven Years' War is called as the real First World War for a reason- a battle for redistribution of spheres of influence. This is the first major conflict for Russia since the Great Northern War. The dawn of the strategic and tactical talent of the Prussian king Frederick II, not the Great yet. Having started as just another war between Austria and Prussia over disputed Silesia and attracting new participants, the confrontation, lasted for long seven years and brought huge destruction to Central Europe.
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