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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 following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. ... Seven Years' War: 7,000+ Battle of Leuthen: 1757 Seven Years' War ...
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 ...
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 ...
1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession – 359,000 killed in action [1] 1740–1763 Silesian Wars; 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War; 1745–1746 Jacobite rising of 1745; 1756–1763 Seven Years' War – 992,000 killed in action [1] 1757 Battle of Khresili; 1763–1864 Russo-Circassian War; 1768–1772 War of the Bar Confederation; 1768–1774 ...
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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 ...