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| 1759 |
| | Frederick the Great suffers his first major defeat, by a Russian and Austrian army at Kunersdorf | |
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| 1759 |
| | A British defeat of the French in Quiberon Bay prompts David Garrick to write Heart of Oak | |
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| 1776 |
| | George Washington defeats the British at Trenton at a psychologically important moment in the course of the war | |
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| 1777 |
| | The American general Horatio Gates captures the army of General Burgoyne near Saratoga | |
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| 1781 |
| | The British general Charles Cornwallis, isolated at Yorktown, is forced to surrender in the final engagement of the Revolutionary War | |
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| 1792 |
| | A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack | |
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| 1792 |
| | After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1793 |
| | Napoleon's soldiers capture Toulon and his artillery fire forces the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw from the harbour | |
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| 1798 |
| | Napoleon's campaign in Egypt begins well with the Battle of the Pyramids, a victory over an Egyptian army | |
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| 1798 |
| | Disaster strikes the French in Egypt when Nelson finds their fleet in Aboukir Bay and destroys it in the Battle of the Nile | |
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