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Talk:World History Lecture Eight (view source)
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:I am not at all minimising the importance of the F and I War – it had an enormous impact – it gave Canada to Britain and in a way opened the door for the American Revolution a few years later. But the Seven Years War also gave Britain control of India, which is not exactly trifling; and the [[Battle of Quiberon Bay]] off Brittany in 1759 equals [[Trafalgar]] in importance.
:I am not at all minimising the importance of the F and I War – it had an enormous impact – it gave Canada to Britain and in a way opened the door for the American Revolution a few years later. But the Seven Years War also gave Britain control of India, which is not exactly trifling; and the [[Battle of Quiberon Bay]] off Brittany in 1759 equals [[Trafalgar]] in importance.
:To say that the Seven Years’ War was about “commercial competition between European nations in North America” is a bit like saying World War II started with Pearl Harbor. (And I have met Americans who thought it did.) [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 00:39, 12 March 2009 (EDT)00:38, 12 March 2009 (EDT)
:To say that the Seven Years’ War was about “commercial competition between European nations in North America” is a bit like saying World War II started with Pearl Harbor. (And I have met Americans who thought it did.) [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 00:39, 12 March 2009 (EDT)00:38, 12 March 2009 (EDT)
::One other thing....English. Phonetic? How does that gell with the infamous "''ough''" words. You know, "cough", "through" "burough", 'rough", etc? Not to mention "veer"' "mere", "pier" "ear" and so on. I love English. I wallow in it. I carry volumes of Shakespeare around in my back pocket. But I would never call it phonetically easy. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 01:13, 12 March 2009 (EDT)