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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
The Partisan in War (1789), a treatise on light infantry tactics written by Colonel Andreas Emmerich, is based on his experiences in the Seven Years' War. The Seven Years' War is the central theme of G. E. Lessing's 1767 play Minna von Barnhelm or the Soldiers' Happiness.
The Seven Years' War, 1754–1763, spanned four continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, and India and the Philippines, in Asia.. The conflict split Europe into two coalitions: Kingdom of Great Britain, Prussia, Portugal, Hanover, and other small German states on one side versus the Kingdom of France, Austria-led Holy Roman Empire, Russia, Spain, several small German states ...
Based on statistics from Our World in Data (starting in 1400), 1525 (the end of the German Peasants' War) was, at its time, the deadliest year in terms of conflict deaths with 160k deaths, until it was surpassed by 1618 which saw 316k deaths. As the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and the Manchu conquest of China (1618–1683) continued, 1618 ...
Seven Years' War (1756–63), among European powers and their colonies, encompassing the French and Indian War. Great Britain in the Seven Years' War; France in the Seven Years' War; Northern Seven Years' War (1563–70), also known as the Nordic Seven Years' War, Sweden against Denmark-Norway and allies; Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98 ...
Seven Years' War: 10,000+ Battle of Rossbach: 1757 Seven Years' War: 10,000 [267] Battle of Breslau (1757) 1757 Seven Years' War: 12,000 Battle of Zorndorf: 1758 Seven Years' War: 30,000 [citation needed] Battle of Krefeld: 1758 Seven Years' War: 5,200 Battle of Kunersdorf: 1759 Seven Years' War: 35,000 [268] Battle of Minden: 1759 Seven Years ...
1563–1570 Northern Seven Years' War; 1565 Great Siege of Malta; 1566 Siege of Szigetvár; 1568–1570 Morisco Revolt; 1568–1648 Eighty Years' War; 1569–1580 Spanish-Ottoman War – 48,000 killed in action [1] 1569–1570 Rising of the North; 1569–1573 First Desmond Rebellion; 1573 Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt; 1578 Georgian-Ottoman War
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