This is the world map during the seven years war

This is the world map during the seven years war.
The blue guys won.
How?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years'_War

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1762–63)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_War
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg
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Britian was equivalant to modern America power projection wise and Prussia is how Germs became known as warlike

fuck off

When you have Brits and Prussians fighting on the same side, there's LITERALLY no way they can lose.

most countries gave up when portugal got in the war
after that the war was over in a year

The world map means very little. actually.
Bigger country =/= bigger and better army

>How?
England ruled the waves.

Because the two major protagonist were UK and France... And UK has an impenetrable protection called the English channel.

>How?
UK stronk

because Prussia and Great Britain could take on the world together and win

UK and Prussia

Portugal was literally irrelevant btw

> mexico in charge of winning wars

>UK has an impenetrable protection called the English channel.

It's called the Royal Navy

English Channel is not protection, it's the opposite. British Isles have been invaded a million times from the continent and it was easy because we had no decent navy

Then then Royal Navy was created (after Acts of Union) and we were never conquered again

>Britian was equivalant to modern America power projection wise
Britain was more powerful compared to its contemporaries than America is

>Britain was more powerful compared to its contemporaries than America is

Bullshit. Back during the 7 years war we weren't even that much more powerful than France. Shortly after the 7 years war, the French Navy would defeat the Royal Navy sufficiently to allow US rebels to win independence

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_invasion_of_Portugal_(1762)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1762–63)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_War
fuck off
we were important in these theaters

Didn't see the 7 years war part

I'm a disgrace

>The blue guys won.
>How?

The good guys always win.

well yeah, you fought off your neighbour
prussia and GB fought the world

>The Spanish–Portuguese War between 1762 and 1763 was fought as part of the Seven Years' War.
>Because no major battles were fought, even though there were numerous movements of troops and huge losses among the invaders
>the war is known in the Portuguese historiography as the Fantastic War

My shipfu.

Yeah of course. It's way easier to cross the sea than to walk on land.

>Didn't see the 7 years war part
>I'm a disgrace

You're a disgrace because we were NEVER as powerful compared to our contemporaries as the US is today. The foundation of British power wasn't overwhelming military force like the US can project but its diplomacy and ability to build coalitions.

>he's never swam the channel

Piece of piss m8.

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_War
yup,25000 spanish soldiers dying from nothing kek

You know the British aren't the only people in the world who can build ships, right? Once you defeat the navy then you can easily invade the British Isles. This is what countless people did back in the day. The French, Vikings, Angles, Saxons, and more.

Why did Britain stop getting conquered from outside?

It was NOT because the English Channel suddenly generated a magical repelling forcefield.

We stopped being invaded because of the Royal Navy.

It's the most obvious thing in the world. You have to be stupid not to understand this, but people pretend water is a magical shield. Desperate so many other islands all other the world being conquered by Europeans in the last few hundred years.

You're fucking stupid

>Desperate so many other
Despite*

>We stopped being invaded because of the Royal Navy.
But now you don't have a real navy

I'm ready for the next round of Germanic invasions

Because a lot of them are only on the map but didn't even participate
>showing the Spanish colonies as if anything actually happened down there during the entire war
Give me a break.

>the fantastic war

Wew

>But now you don't have a real navy

You mean it's an optical illusion or something?

"It's something to know huh, I said it my book, but to know that, you must do the work uphill huh. I grabbed him, he farted, huh, he could have pooped"

It's a """"navy""""

>Once you defeat the navy then you can easily invade the British Isles.

Or have a good air force too.

That's not even a British carrier any more

France, which as you know is in the mainland, always had to maintain a huge landforce in order to resist to its neighbours (Italy, Spain, The Holy Roman Empire or even Austria) AND to build a fleet.

UK had just to build a decent fleet in order to resist to sea invasions. You had "no" land army, when Napoleon prepared its invasion, British people were fleeing from coasts.

Opposite to mainland countries you have no neighbour only water.

I would also add that water is pretty hard to cross for a land army. You need to have HUGE logistic capabilities. You don't only have to destroy fucking boats, you have to transport people with it.

Russia has General Winter, you have General Aquaman.

>Or have a good air force too.
Both. Once air forces became a thing they obviously played a big role, but in the battle you posted the Royal Navy was just as important as the RAF in stopping invasion. In fact the Germans were terrified of conducting an invasion even if they somehow defeated the RAF because they knew their troop barges would get decimated by the RN

>A FUCKING RAMP

твн ramps are pretty cool

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg

>Opposite to mainland countries you have no neighbour only water.

You leave out the part where the mainland countries were often much bigger than Britain, until quite late they had bigger economies too. Yes they had to spend more resources on the land army BUT they had the option to form a coalition and COMBINE navies in order to destroy the Royal Navy

This happened. Several times. Our enemies formed coalitions and sent combined forces against the Royal Navy.

You might complain it's hard but the British managed to do the land equivalent. The only way the British won battles on the Continent or in huge land masses like India was by forming coalitions and winning.

Our enemies tried the naval equivalent to this and lost against the Royal Navy.

>You need to have HUGE logistic capabilities.
For much of history once you defeated the navy it was a piece of piss. Especially since the sea carried you faster than a marching army, and the people defending the island had little to no warning of the invasion forces. This is what made the Vikings etc so deadly

>Russia has General Winter, you have General Aquaman.
General Winter is a similar fallacy. The French hate to admit it but they lost to to the Russian army's superior tactics and attrition warfare. All the winter did was turn the retreat into a massacre. The invasion happened in the summer.

t. Battle of Borodino

Checkmate atheists

And we have General.......nobody :^(

Blablabla Mr. Freeman.

I don't know why you even talk anyway, you almost always had mainland european allies.

This is the world map during the French revolutionary war.
The green guys won.
How?

>Yes they had to spend more resources on the land army BUT they had the option to form a coalition and COMBINE navies in order to destroy the Royal Navy

Are you retarded ? That's not how the world works.

> General Winter is a similar fallacy. The French hate to admit it but they lost to to the Russian army's superior tactics and attrition warfare

They lost to Winter and to Russia, which used a great war tactic, not to the russian army.


The rest of your post is complete garbage.

>you almost always had mainland european allies.

Complaining about this is like the Russians and Prussians complaining about Napoleon's superior manoeuvring at Austerlitz. As if that makes victory unfair and invalid.

No.

Winning allies is how you win wars. For Britain to have those allies and keep them was an extremely expensive and difficult task. In fact in the Napoleonic Wars we would lose allies and have to win them over again. For a while in that war we had no allies.

You have general unlimited manpower :^)

>Spain cedes Florida to Great Britain.

Well, Spain took it back 20 years later but it's not like it matters.

>Are you retarded ? That's not how the world works.
It isn't? Well at least you guys tried but you don't have to be sore losers about it.

>They lost to Winter and to Russia, which used a great war tactic, not to the russian army.
They suffered the strategic defeat against Russia. The Russian Winter came into play during the retreat back westwards.

By the time winter had come, Napoleon had lost the war.

Look up the Battle of Borodino and the events that took place afterward

>Winning allies is how you win wars

Yep, this is something germans never understood and english mastered.

You have General "I'm fucking sandwiched between Spain, Germany and Italy"

The french king was a fucking retard.

LEVÉE EN MASSE :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

don't turn this around. You claimed you couldn't be beaten (which you were by the dutch anyway) because of your royal navy and that we should have build a similar force blabla, I told you we couldn't focus on the navy because he were always threatened by your bodyguards in europe.

He was a retard for allying with the inept austrians. But it wasn't his fault russia switched sides.

>However, in a long term war of attrition, the battle was just one more source of losses to the French when they were losing two men to one. Both the French and the Russians suffered terribly but the Russians had reserve troops, and a clear advantage in the logistics war. The French Army supplies came over a long road lined with hostile forces. According to Rhien, so long as the Russian Army existed the French continued to lose.[41] This victory ultimately cost Napoleon his army, as it allowed the French emperor to believe that the campaign was winnable, exhausting his forces as he went on to Moscow to await a surrender that would never come. Historian Rhiem notes that the Borodino victory allowed Napoleon to move on to Moscow, where—even allowing for the arrival of reinforcements—the French Army only possessed a maximum of 95,000 men, who would be ill-equipped to win a battle due to a lack of supplies and ammunition. The Grande Armée suffered 66% of its casualties by the time of the Moscow retreat

That happened on 7th September. LITERALLY a week after August.

And I am supposed to believe the French were defeated by "General Winter"? Give me a fucking break. This is one of the great historical myths that everyone believes despite it being easily disprovable bullshit.

There is no hiding from defeat. The Spanish and their Armada can use weather as an excuse - not the French in this war

>General Aquaman
France bringing the keks

>You claimed you couldn't be beaten (which you were by the dutch anyway) because of your royal navy

The RN didn't do anything much against them because they were invited in, as large parts of the military wanted to remove the King (who was too close to France). At any rate, that happened before the Union and my claim we were never conquered after the Acts of Union when the English and Scottish navies combined to form the Royal Navy. That is true.

>I told you we couldn't focus on the navy because he were always threatened by your bodyguards in europe.

... and I told you that the deficit can be closed by combining your navy with allied navies, which is exactly what Britain did to win on land.

Mass conscription helped a lot.

they didn't do shit because they couldn't intercept them. they literally went right away in and landed. the RN was under the orders of their king.

they were. the russian army sure as hell didn't defeat us. logistics did, the french were constantly moving froward and winning ground and battles, then they went back to France to reshape themselves consiering the russian emperor would rather kill all his people rather than to sign piece of the "antechrist", winter destroyed the army and any hope of regaining their shape for an another offensive later on.

Then the previously defeated and occupied territories revolted and it was the end of napoleon.

You're right - they couldn't intercept because of the wind and then some officers told stories later to make excuses. The difficultly of intercepting an invading fleet pretty much gives the lie to your argument that defending an island is easy, doesn't it?

At any rate, this happened before the Union. It's the UK that has never been conquered, England (which is what the Dutch conquered) was conquered plenty of times.

>the russian army sure as hell didn't defeat us. logistics did

The Russians did defeat you though. Through superior strategy and attrition. Napoleon believed in provoking the enemy into a Decisive Battle, winning, and then accepting surrender.

The Tsar could easily have copied Austria and Prussia, marched westwards with his big army and given Napoleon his Decisive Battle.

But the Tsar and his generals were far smarter than people give them credit for. THEY knew this is what Napoleon wanted, so they didn't give it to him. They won the only way they could - by forcing the French to extend their supply lines and accepting the attritional damage on home territory in order to win the wider war.

A couple years later the Tsar was leading his victories forces into Paris

>winter destroyed the army and any hope of regaining their shape for an another offensive later on.

Nope, most of the Grande Armee was already gone before the onset of winter. If that summer was followed by another summer Napoleon would have still lost by attrition.

God's own people always prevail

we wuz kangs

hmm impenetrable you say

we ARE kangz

France was playing total war and no one else was

There's a bloody long tunnel underneath it.

It was fantastic because those 15000 only defended the central part of the country. In some regions of the north, there were peasants, women and children killing Spaniard soldiers.

They sent a letter to our prime minister stating that they didn't need any help.

7 years after an earthquake levelled our capital and GDP, and left our army unpayed for 2 years before.

That's what was fantastic about it, from our perspective.