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* 1759 – Seven Years ' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.
* 1760 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Liegnitz – Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
* 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.
* 1758 – Seven Years ' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.
Clark's Seven Years of a Sailor ’ s Life ( 1867 ).
Christian rock group Relient K recorded the song " Plead the Fifth " a cappella on its album Five Score and Seven Years Ago.
Phillip joined the Royal Navy at about fifteen, and saw action at the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War in the Mediterranean at the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
In 1762 he was promoted to Lieutenant, but was placed on half pay when the Seven Years ' War ended in 1763.
Throughout its history, the British Army has seen action in a number of major wars involving the worlds great powers, including the Seven Years ' War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, World War I and World War II.
From the time of the end of the Seven Years ' War in 1763, Great Britain and its successor the United Kingdom has been one of the leading military and economic powers of the world.
Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).
With native and provincial assistance, the Army conquered New France in the Seven Years ' War and subsequently suppressed a Native American uprising in Pontiac's War.
One important turning point came in the Seven Years ' War, when the British conquered the port of Havana and introduced thousands of slaves in a ten month period.
The Seven Years ' War, which erupted in 1754 across three continents, eventually arrived in the Spanish Caribbean.
Less than a year after Havana was seized, the Peace of Paris was signed by the three warring powers, ending the Seven Years ' War.
Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years ' War were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition.
Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years ' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
During the Seven Years ' War, the British sought to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia.
Following the Seven Years ' War, empty Acadian lands were settled first by New England Planters and then by immigrants brought from Yorkshire.
In 1761 during the Seven Years War a British expedition against Dominica led by Lord Rollo was successful and the island was conquered along with several other Caribbean islands.
As part of the 1763 Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years ' War, the island became a British possession.
" In particular, a series of strips in which Dogbert worked as a talk radio host drew criticism from conservatives for his supposed attack on Rush Limbaugh ( which Adams denied in Seven Years of Highly Defective People ).
# Seven Years of Highly Defective People — 1997 ; strips from 1989 to 1995, with handwritten notes by Scott Adams
* 1761 – Seven Years ' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.

Seven and War
Throughout the Seven Year War in Korea, the Chinese-Korean coalition used artillery widely, in both land and naval battles, including on the Turtle Ships of Yi Sun-sin.

Seven and might
Studies ( notably The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two ) have suggested that the short-term memory of adult humans can hold only a limited number of items ; grouping items into larger chunks such as in a mnemonic might be part of what permits the brain to hold a larger total amount of information in short-term memory, which in turns can aid the creation of long-term memories.
Without the Seven Years ' War to " unite " the two countries briefly, the marriage of Maria Antonia and the Dauphin Louis-Auguste might not have occurred.
Fincher approached making Seven like a " tiny genre movie, the kind of movie Friedkin might have made after The Exorcist.
When Frederick preemptively invaded Saxony and Bohemia over the course of a few months in 1756 – 1757, he initiated the Seven Years ' War which might also be considered the first world war since it was fought in the three continents ( France and Great Britain's colonies ).
Seven minutes later the FAA reported that United Airlines Flight 93, outbound from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, might also have been hijacked.
Jia proposed dividing the larger principalities ruled by branch lines of the imperial family, a proposal that Emperor Wen agreed with but hesitated to actually carry out, and he did not actually implement Jia's proposal, which later might have prevented the Rebellion of the Seven States.
Some have alleged that this Quorum of Seven might have existed as a subcommittee within the Council of Fifty, but the Cutlerites have never advanced any such interpretation or otherwise addressed that particular subject.
Charles Bean noted that " this wise, good and considerate commander was far from the stupid martinet that readers of Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom might infer.
In 1999, SCONUL, the Society of College, National and University Libraries in the UK, published " The Seven Pillars of Information Literacy " model, to " facilitate further development of ideas amongst practitioners in the field ... stimulate debate about the ideas and about how those ideas might be used by library and other staff in higher education concerned with the development of students ' skills.
These databases combine the many catalogue designations an object might have, so that a search for the Pleiades will also find papers which list the famous open cluster in Taurus under any of its other catalog designations or popular names, such as M45, the Seven Sisters or Melotte 22.
Snow White's mother's wish for a beautiful child might have been a coincidence, but the father's wish in The Seven Ravens transforms his sons into ravens, just as the mother's wish in The Raven transforms her daughter.
The island is mentioned in a royal letter of King Afonso V of Portugal ( dated 10 November 1475 ), where he grants the knight Fernão Teles " the Seven Cities and any other populated islands " he might find in the western Atlantic Ocean.
Albert Camus said about The Seven Who Fled, " Prokosch has invented what might be called the geographical novel, in which he mingles sensuality with irony, lucidity with mystery.
However in September 2012, Hinch re-joined the Seven Network as National Public affairs commentator, though there were rumours Hinch might make a comeback
The show ran on the 0-10 Network ( as it was then known ) from 1972 until 1987, then on the Seven Network until it was cancelled in 1992 after the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal claimed that the program was not educational enough and was " not clearly defined and might confuse the young ".
Despite concerns that he might share the fate of his diplomat brother Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy, who was at that time thrown into Turkey's notorious prison Seven Towers, Ivan travelled to Azov and on the way back became ill and died in Cherkassk on August 25, 1713.

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