The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775

by William R. Nester

By 1756 the wilderness war for control of North America that erupted two years earlier between France and England had expanded into a global struggle among all of Europe's Great Powers. Its land and sea battles raged across the North American continent, engulfed Europe and India, and stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific waters. The new conflict, now commonly known as the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763, was a direct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275967719
• ISBN13: 9780275967710
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"