Name: 七年戦争 クラッシュコース世界史 #26 (The Seven Years War: Crash Course World History #26)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:47:28.000Z
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Hi, my name is John Green, This is Crash Course World History. Oh my gosh! Today we're going

to talk about war. Ah! Explosions everywhere!

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So, traditionally, historians are pretty keen on wars, because they feature clearly delineated

beginnings, and middles, and ends, and because they always have a fair bit of death and drama

and mortally wounded generals who have great last words like

"Let us cross the river and rest under the shade of those trees,"

whereas the last words of, plague victims are always, like, "Unggggg."

Sorry, plague victims. As if you don't have enough troubles. Now you've got me teasing

Wars have easy whens, wheres, whos, and whys: 1861-1865. The United States. The North vs.

the South. To end slavery and save the Union.

Mr. Green, Mr. Green. Are you gonna show us the hidden complexities behind something we

Sorry me from the past, but yes. However, to placate you, here are some more explosions.

The 17th and 18th centuries saw a bunch of top-notch wars, but today we're going to focus

on the 7 Years War, also called the French and Indian War, because it was the first truly

In fact, no less a historian than Winston Churchill called it "The first world war."

But we've been so Eurocentric here on Crash Course that all we are going to say about

the ENTIRE WAR IN EUROPE is that Prussia and Great Britain fought France and Austria, and

that the Austrian Hapsburgs wanted to win back Silesia, which they failed to do. THERE.

So the Seven Years War lasted for...anyone...anyone...

I hate you, Me from the Past. But, as it happens, by sheer coincidence, you are not necessarily

So, the when: The Seven Years War began in 1756 and ended in 1763.

Unless you believe—as many historians do—that the 7 Years War lasted 23 years, because it

was really a continuation of the War for Austrian Succession.

Then you have the fact that much of the information in today's episode is taken from a book called,

"The Global Seven Years War: 1754-1763," a nine year period.

As for the who: It was mainly fought between the British and the French, seen here reenacting

the knife fight from either Beat It or West Side Story, depending on your age.

But some of the British were actually Americans, and both the British and the French were supported

And there was fighting in India between Indian Indians, the British, the French.

And as previously noted the French were fighting the Prussians and the British were fighting

The where: Europe, the continental U.S., the Caribbean Sea, off the cost of Africa, India.

And the why: Ostensibly, land. British colonists wanted to expand into land west of the original

And that land was technically held by the French, who left it alone except for a bunch

of trading posts. And they were like, "Je de veux pens l'anglais."

Thank you, four years of high school French.

Anyway, the war wasn't really about land; it was really about our old friend trade.

The British wanted to expand into the American interior to allow for more colonists, because

the British benefited from both the export of raw materials from the Americas and the

import of British consumer goods to the Americas.

So, more colonists meant more trade, which meant more wealth, which meant ever-fancier

And the French realized that this British-Atlantic maritime trade was making Britain so rich

that British might come for France's actually valuable colonies—which were not in the

continental U.S. but those slave-based sugar plantations in the Caribbean.

So the fighting began around here. And while the British did send over actual British troops,

much of the early fighting was done by colonial militias.

Probably the most famous commander of British troops was a Virginia colonel named George

In fact, he may have actually started the shooting at the battle of Fort Necessity in

May of 1754. Washington was captured in that battle and then he was immediately released

because 18th century war was super weird.

Anyway, the real North American action was in New York and Canada. At the battle at the

Plains of Abraham in 1759, for instance, the British defeated the French and captured the

city of Quebec. Both the British commander, General Wolfe and the French commander, General

Montcalm, were killed at this battle, with the death of the former being immortalized

in this famous painting, by Benjamin West:

As indicated by the picture, almost all the battles in North America featured significant

Different Native tribes sided with both the British and the French, but as a broad generalization,

Native Americans were more likely to support the French.

Up to this point, shrewd Indian tribes had been able to play the British and the French

off each other and maintain a degree of autonomy for themselves.

And as long as the French were present, the British were prevented from encroaching too

much on lands Native Americans were using for hunting and agriculture.

Now, we haven't talked much about American Indians, mostly because they were geographically

isolated and didn't have a written language. But let's at least give them a Thought Bubble.

Before the arrival of the Europeans, most Native Americans lived in tribal groups. And

they subsisted on a combination of small-scale agriculture and hunting and gathering, depending

There were too many tribes to generalize about specific social structures but it's probably

safe to say that in terms of gender they were much more egalitarian than the Europeans who

Which may explain why European women who were taken captive by Indians sometimes preferred

to stay with the tribe rather than be rescued, although that's somewhat controversial.

One thing we can say about the Indians: their notions of what it meant to hold property

were very different from those of the Europeans. Individual Indians did not "own" land in the

European sense; they used it, and not always particularly intensively.

Europeans, when they came to North America, had a hard time even recognizing that the

Indians were raising crops because their forms of farming were so different from European

agriculture, so the French and especially the English just assumed that the Indians

weren't improving the land, which meant that they didn't own the land, so that meant that

it was ok for Europeans to take it. As you might imagine, that was problematic for the

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