Seven Years’ War

1756–1763 CE

The Seven Years’ War was fought from 1756 to 1763 across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa and India. Britain and France were central rivals, with allies and colonial interests drawing many regions into the conflict. It was one of the first truly global wars of the modern age.

The war mattered because it expanded British imperial power while leaving heavy debts and new tensions with American colonists. Victories in Canada and India changed the balance of empire. The conflict also linked soldiers, sailors, merchants, Indigenous nations, colonial settlers and imperial administrators in a wide network of war.

This setting suits novels about empire before the American Revolution, including frontier fiction, naval fiction and stories of colonial ambition. Diana Gabaldon’s wider Outlander sequence touches the imperial and American colonial world that followed from these conflicts. A series set in the Seven Years’ War could move between Highland regiments, North American forts, Indian trade, Caribbean plantations and London politics.

Related people for Seven Years’ War

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852 Charles Edward Stuart1720–1788 George III1738–1820 George Washington1732–1799 Giuseppe Garibaldi1807–1882 Horatio Nelson1758–1805 Hyder Ali1720–1782 John Moore1761–1809 Louis XV of France1710–1774 Napoleon1769–1821 Prince William, Duke of Cumberland1721–1765 Robert Clive1725–1774 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald1775–1860 Tipu Sultan1751–1799

Series

Series about Seven Years’ War (1 series)

Lord John Grey in Order

by Diana Gabaldon 3 books 4.4

The Lord John Grey novels follow a British Army officer, aristocrat and investigator during the Seven Years’ War and the unsettled aftermath of the Jacobite rising. Set within the wider Outlander world, the series combines military service, espionage, murder investigations, family scandal and the dangers surrounding same-sex relationships…