In 1759, in the battle of Quiberon Bay during the Seven Years War, the British fleet commanded by Admiral Hawke destroyed the French invasion fleet under Admiral Conflans.
This was the Seven years' War, described by Winston Churchill as the first "world war" for its immense scope.
In 1763, the Treaty of Hubertusburg was signed, ending hostilities between Austria and Prussia in the Seven Years' War.
That would be the summer of 2010 - two years from now, and more than seven years after the war began.
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IRA's war seven years ago, unionists have struggled to see the benefit to them.
After its defeat in the Gulf war seven years ago, the council ordered it to hand over all illicit weapons and to accept continued monitoring of its arms industries before harsh economic sanctions could be lifted.
Seven years later, with the Cold War looming, a similar scene played out with another president.
The Times article noted that seven years ago Bill Gates predicted the war on spam would be won in two years.
This is a remarkable milestone in a war that began more than seven years ago.
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Religious tolerance began to crumble, culminating seven years later in the outbreak of the 30 Years War.
Mr Carter apparently read more than 35 books on the war in preparation, and spent seven years writing The Hornet's Nest.
Part One takes us to Afghanistan, a nation that is more violent now than at any time since the war to oust the Taliban began seven years ago.
By walking out of the 2001 Durban conference, and refusing to participate, support or finance any aspect of this UN-sponsored campaign until last Saturday, for seven years the US made clear that it opposed this war and believed its aim of destroying Israel is unacceptable.
Seven years on from the bid, one of the largest post-war public works projects has been delivered.
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Seven years into a vicious, expensive, politically unpopular and largely ignored war being fought thousands of miles from Paris, the French expeditionary force under General Henri Navarre was under pressure from its political masters at home to grasp the military initiative from the Chinese-backed forces of the Viet Minh.
In July three British men were jailed for terms from seven to ten years for using the internet to incite others to wage holy war.
Emptied of all aspirations and ideology, the Japanese spent the next seven years (the allied occupation lasted almost twice as long as the Pacific war itself) having their minds filled with a wholly new vision and set of dreams.
He entered Parliament in 1945 in Labour's post-war landslide and became Speaker in 1976, a post he held until his retirement seven years later.
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The idea of Oslo not as a new era of peace but an interlude between two periods of war will come as a shock to many who witnessed the Great Handshake on the White House Lawn seven years ago.
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