Wars of 18th Century Europe

From Hobson's Choice

Between 1618 and 1815, Europe suffered a succession of wars that revolutionized military technology and consolidated polities into nations.

List of Major European Wars, 1618-1815

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• Thirty Years War (1618-1648);
• Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659);
• Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1651);
• Anglo-Spanish Wars (1654);
• Netherlands Wars
  • War of Devolution (1667-1668);
  • Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678);
• War of the Grand Alliance (1688-1697);
• War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714);
• War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720);
• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748); & War of Jenkin's Ear;
• Seven Year's War (AKA "The French & Indian War," 1740-1748);

French Revolutionary Wars

See Francois-Auguste Mignet, "History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814"

• • War of the First Coalition (1792-1797);
  • War of the Second Coalition (1799-1802);
  • War of the Third Coalition (1805);
  • War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807);
  • War of the Fifth Coalition (1809);
  • War of the Sixth Coalition (1812-1814);
  • War of the Hundred Days (1815);