18th century warfare Flashcards by william chambliss

Who initially allies with Prussia in order to take Sillisia

France and Spain

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Why did France initially ally with Prussia

France backs the claim of unclaimed king/ to further weaken HRE

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Who claims to be the king of austri

Charles Albert of Bavaria who is the cousin of Maria Theresa

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Why did Spain initally ally with Prussia

Wants land in the HRE (Lombardy and Tuscanny)

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Who allies with Maria Theresa initally

Britian because they are always against the French

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What ends the war of Austrian succession

Treaty of Aixla Chapelle

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What does the Treaty of Aixla Chepelle say

go back to normal, Prussia gets Silesia

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What trades happen through the treaty of Aixla Chapelle

Louisburg for madras. Britian to French

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Who is the Emporer of Austria post treaty of Aixla

Francis of Lorraine, Francis I

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Wealtheist province of HRE

sisellia

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Who was sent from Austria to alliance with others, who did he get

Kaunt von Kauniz, gets an alliance between Austria, France and Russia

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What is the Convenstion of West Minister

britian and prussia alliance, prussia protects hanover

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What color is russia

green, lots of untrained menm

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Austrian army reformation

200k and reformed post austrian succession

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France army stats

200k, untrained or supplied

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Where did the seven years war start

1754 gwash was defeated at fort neccessity

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How does Fred the great fight when everyone is surrounding him

goes on offensive

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first fred great attack

invades saxony and takes army

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first major attack between fred the great and one of the powers

attacks austria at prague in may or june, defeats France Austrian army at rossbach in November and austrian again in december

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British start in india conquest

General Robert Clive defeated french in india at plessy

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First french victory in 7 years war

overtook hanover, retook in june if 1758 by brits

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Prussia vs Russia first major battle

Zorndorf, prussia looses 37 percent men, russia looses 50

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first fred loss

October of 1758, Austria defeats at Hochkirk

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1759 battles

fred attacks russia austria at kunersford and was defeated

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what stops russia from taking berlin

supply chain

1760 battles

fred def austrians at torgav

Who takes throne after george II

George III

First thing george III does

He is power hungry and fires William Pitt in 1763

Last french outpost in india

1761 brits take city of pondicherry

What saves Frederick the Great

1762 russian army marches to berlin but Tsarina elizabeth dies and Peter III is king and orders the troops off, forming an alliance. Named the Miracle of the house of Brandenburg

how does the russian millitary respond to the Miracle of the house of Brandenburg

They plot with his wife (catherine) to kill him and make her the tsarina

why did france not have much participation in the 7 years war

they were losing colonies and being stretched because of that

How did spain contribute in the7 years war

started late and invaded portugal until brits beat them out

What treaty ended the colonial phase of the war

treaty of paris

result of treaty of paris

France lost everthing in NA except Michelon and st. pierre. Britian keeps france stuff and returns Guadalupe, Martinique. Spain got cuba and phillipeans in return for florida to brits and their backing out of portugal

who takes india

Britian under General clive

What treaty ended the europe portion of the war

Treaty oof Hubertusburg

What does the Treaty of hubersburg say

Status quo, prussia out of saxony, austria out of sisillia

winners

britian

losers

france and austria

what happens to prussia post war

lost 10 percent of pop

what happens to maria theresa post war

lost silesia and lost hungary through consilidations

which indians helped each side in NA French war

Huron helped france, iriqois helped Britain

How did Britian feel after the war diplomatically

lost everyones trust and now the colonies

How did brits take quebec

instead of going through the woods, they used boats to attack the wide open abrahamic plaines of Quebec

What is the effect of the french inidan war

American Revolution

What was the economic reason for American revolution

Sugar and stamp act where authored to pay back the protection from the French inidan war, did not like that at all

Result of the Sugar stamp act

stamp act congress, used threat of not trading with them to get them to repeal the acts

what was the declatory act

parliament can tax in the future but also gets rid of sugar stamp act

Who was the newest tax collector for the brits

Charles Townsend, Chancellor of Exchange, passed townsend actsr

result of townsend act

Tar and feathring the tax collectors

Result of taring and feathering

troops went to protect tax colletors, leads to boston massacre

result of boston massacre

brits repealed all but the tea tax

result of tea tax

boston tea party

result of tea party

1st contential congress to negotiate settlement with parliament.

what disrupts the contential congress

lexington and concord make the negotioations anything but pretty

First real battle of AR

Bunker/Breeds Hill,

What page unified USA

Thomas Paines common Sense

What battle brought france to fight

Saratoga 1777

How was the decleration of independence justified

Through the Glorious revolution example

Treaty of aran Juaz

France got spain into war promising spain could aquire Minorca, flordia, gibraltar

When did Dutch enter the AR

1780, before this they were selling weapons

What was the spanish american relationship during the Ar

spainish did not like them, only in the war to fight the british

Prime minister during the AR

Lord north, picked due to his non political presence

What was the southern strategy

Brits go after more loyal to brits south, does not work well

Who is John Wilkes

Radial parliamentarian man who wrote the north brition, very critical of goverenment

what happens to john wilkes due to his speaking

he was expelled from parliament bc of libel and rewon election 3 times after that, only allowed back in after he got elected mayor of london

what did john wilkes represent

convinced americans that george iii was running a corrupt government

impact of AR on whole of europe

shows that democracy could work, monarchy was not neccesary

Brits economic impact form AR

it was not a big deal to them, just socially embarressed

French econ impact from AR

pushed them over the edge

Treaty of paris 1783

spain kept Florida and Minorca

What came from the response of the AR in Britain

THe yorkshire association movement

what is the yorkshire association movement

movement where chris wyvil and other landowners protested for moderate change