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| 1701 |
| | | The War of the Spanish Succession breaks out between French and Austrian claimants to the Spanish throne | |
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| 1741 |
| | | French and Bavarian armies join the war against Austria, marching through upper Austria into Bohemia | |
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| 1741 |
| | | French and Bavarian forces enter Prague, one of the most important cities in the Austrian empire | |
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| 1745 |
| | | New England militiamen achieve an unexpected success in capturing the fortress of Louisbourg from the French | |
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| 1746 |
| | | The French commander Maurice de Saxe succeeds in occupying the entire Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1749 |
| | | A French official travels down the Ohio valley, placing markers to claim it for France | |
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| 1751 |
| | | Robert Clive prevails over the French after holding out during the seven-week siege of Arcot in southern India | |
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| 1752 |
| | | The French seize or evict every English-speaking trader in the region of the upper Ohio | |
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| 1753 |
| | | George Washington undertakes a difficult and ineffectual journey to persuade the French to withdraw from the Ohio valley | |
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| 1754 |
| | | George Washington kills ten French troops at Fort Duquesne, in the first violent clash of the French and Indian war | |
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