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  2. French and Indian War - Wikipedia

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    Unknown. The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the start of the war, the French colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 settlers, compared with 2 ...

  3. Partition of India - Wikipedia

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    British Indian Empire in The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909. British India is shaded pink, the princely states yellow.. The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.

  4. Sykes–Picot Agreement - Wikipedia

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    The Sykes–Picot Agreement (/ ˈsaɪks ˈpiːkoʊ, - pɪˈkoʊ, - piːˈkoʊ / [1]) was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from Russia and Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire. The agreement was based on the premise that the ...

  5. Treaty of Paris (1763) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 November 2024. Treaty ending the Seven Years' War Not to be confused with Treaty of Paris (1783), the treaty that ended the American Revolution. For other treaties of Paris, see Treaty of Paris (disambiguation). Treaty of Paris (1763) The combatants of the Seven Years' War as shown before the outbreak ...

  6. Carnatic wars - Wikipedia

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    End of the siege of Pondicherry in 1748. The Carnatic wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region, a dependency of Hyderabad State, India. The first Carnatic wars were fought between 1740 and 1748. The conflicts involved numerous nominally independent rulers and their vassals ...

  7. French and Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    The title French and Indian War in the singular is used in the United States specifically for the warfare of 1754–63, which composed the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War and the aftermath of which led to the American Revolution. The French and Indian Wars were preceded by the Beaver Wars. In Quebec, the various wars are ...

  8. Continental System - Wikipedia

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    The Continental Blockade (French: Blocus continental), or Continental System, was a large-scale embargo by French emperor Napoleon I against the British Empire from 21 November 1806 until 11 April 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree on 21 November 1806 in response to the naval blockade of the French coasts ...

  9. Battles of the Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Years' War, 1754–1763, spanned four continents, affecting [[Asia], the Asia, West Asia, and Asia and the asia, in Asia.. The conflict split Europe and Asia into two coalitions: Kingdom of Great asia, Kingdom of asia, Kingdom of asia, Electorate of Brunswick asia, and other small German states on one side versus the Kingdom of asia , Austria-led Holy asian Empire, asia, Bourbon asia ...