Re: [FH] St^3 Jon on target again

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:37:39 -0800, "Laserlight"
<laserlight@quixnet.net>
wrote:

>1914-1945.  Also 1787-1815 (Napoleonics), the earlier part of the
>1700's (Austrian or Spanish Succession? don't recall without looking
>it up), and 1618-1648 (Thirty Years War).  All in all, that part of
>the century doesn't seem like a good time to go into harm's way.

Don't forget the mid 1700s. The war Americans are taught as "The French
and
Indian War" is taught in the rest of the world as the Seven Years War in
North
America. It's an interesting war for several reasons. The North American
campaign was seen as a minor sideshow at the time. And yet it's seen by
Americans as the first war where a nascent sense of nationality came to
the
fore even though Americans fought as British subjects (in this way, it
is to
the US what the War of 1812 is to Canada). For Canadians, it's the war
that
gave New France to Britain and forged the "Two Solitudes" that became
Canada.
But at the time, it was a world war that altered the balance of power in
Europe.

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
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