Question: What was the size of one of the Prussian victories against the Russians?
Answer: . One of them, led by general Platen in September resulted in the loss of 2,000 Russians, mostly captured, and the destruction of 5,000 wagons

Question: Identify a major Prussian loss to the Russians
Answer: Russians under Zakhar Chernyshev and Pyotr Rumyantsev stormed Kolberg in Pomerania

Question: identify a major Prussian loss to the Austrians.
Answer: the Austrians captured Schweidnitz.

Question: What was the concern about Prussia in Britain?
Answer: . In Britain, it was speculated that a total Prussian collapse was now imminent.

Question: Britain tried to influence Prussia to take what action?
Answer: offering concessions to secure peace

Question: How many troops did Frederick have left?
Answer: 60,000 men

Question: What development in Russia assisted Prussia?
Answer: Russian Empress Elizabeth died. Her Prussophile successor, Peter III, at once recalled Russian armies from Berlin

Question: What changed the Prussian relationship with Sweden?
Answer: Peter III, at once recalled Russian armies from Berlin (see: the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762)) and mediated Frederick's truce with Sweden

Question: What was the unexpected action by Peter III that helped Frederick?
Answer: He also placed a corps of his own troops under Frederick's command

Question: In 1763 what was the status of Frederick?
Answer: his kingdom was devastated and his army severely weakened

Question: In 1763 what was the status of Austria?
Answer: facing a severe financial crisis and had to decrease the size of its army

Question: What had happened to Frederick's financial help from Britain?
Answer: British subsidies had been stopped by the new Prime Minister Lord Bute

Question: What had happened to Frederick's extra troops from Russia?
Answer: Catherine, who ended Russia's alliance with Prussia and withdrew from the war

Question: What was the result of the weakening of both Prussia and Austria?
Answer: In 1763 a peace settlement was reached at the Treaty of Hubertusburg, ending the war in central Europe.

Question: What was the style of William Pitt's warfare?
Answer: saw purpose in this type of asymmetric enterprise

Question: What action did Pitt take against France in 1758?
Answer: The army landed on 5 June 1758 at Cancalle Bay

Question: How did the invading British army do at St. Malo?
Answer: it would take prolonged siege to capture it, instead attacked the nearby port of St. Servan

Question: What damage was done at the alternate site?
Answer: It burned shipping in the harbor, roughly 80 French privateers and merchantmen, as well as four warships which were under construction

Question: How did the British invaders respond to the arrival of French relief forces?
Answer: the expedition returned having damaged French privateering

Question: Who decided to send British troops into Germany?
Answer: Pitt now prepared to send troops into Germany;

Question: Who led the invasion troops?
Answer: The elderly General Bligh

Question: Was the landing successful?
Answer: the army drove off the French force detailed to oppose their landing, captured Cherbourg,

Question: Where did the troops land?
Answer: Cherbourg

Question: How did the British treat Cherbourg?
Answer: destroyed its fortifications, docks, and shipping.

Question: What stopped the planned siege at St. Malo?
Answer: Worsening weather

Question: How did the army get to the new anchorage location?
Answer: the army proceeded overland.

Question: How did the fleet respond to the bad weather?
Answer: the ships sailed for the safer anchorage of St. Cast

Question: How did the British army escape
Answer: A rear-guard of 1,400 under General Dury held off the French while the rest of the army embarked

Question: What happened to the British army?
Answer: a French force of 10,000 from Brest to catch up with him and open fire on the reembarkation troops

Question: What island did Great Britain lose in 1756?
Answer: Great Britain lost Minorca in the Mediterranean to the French in 1756

Question: What success did the British have in Cuba?
Answer: Spanish cities of Havana in Cuba

Question: What possession did the French lose to the Brits in 1758
Answer: captured the French colonies in Senegal in 1758

Question: Identify the French colonies lost  to the British in 1759 and 1762.
Answer: The British Royal Navy took the French sugar colonies of Guadeloupe in 1759 and Martinique in 1762

Question: What other colony was taken by the British from Spain?
Answer: Manila in the Philippines

Question: Who were the Seven Nations of Canada?
Answer: These were Native Americans of the Laurentian valley

Question: Which tribe was the enemy of the Seven Nations of Canada?
Answer: the Seven Nations were interested in fighting against the Iroquois

Question: How much help did the Seven Nations give the French in the Ohio Valley?
Answer: the Seven Nations were not directly concerned with the fate of the Ohio River Valley

Question: Who was the European partner of the Iroquois?
Answer: The Iroquois, dominant in what is now Upstate New York, sided with the British

Question: How valuable was the Iroquois alliance with Britain?
Answer: The Iroquois, dominant in what is now Upstate New York, sided with the British but did not play a large role in the war

Question: Who assisted the French in taking forts Oswego and William Henry?
Answer: France's native allies

Question: How did the French guard respond to the attack on the prisoners?
Answer: the French refused to protect their captives

Question: How did France's native allies treat the British prisoners?
Answer: slaughtering and scalping soldiers and taking captive many men, women and children

Question: How did the French defend the Fortress of Louisbourg?
Answer: French naval deployments

Question: What Canadian area had is seaward side protected by the defense of the Fortress of Louisbourg?
Answer: securing the seaward approaches to Quebec.

Question: How did the British assure numerical superiority in taking Louisbourg?
Answer: French reinforcements were blocked by British naval victory in the Battle of Cartagena

Question: Identify two other French possessions captured by the British.
Answer: Fort Duquesne and Fort Frontenac

Question: Who did the British deport from Lie Saint-Jean?
Answer: the Acadian population

Question: What is Lie Saint-Jean called today?
Answer: Île Saint-Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island)

Question: How much were the French outnumbered at the Battle of Carillion?
Answer: 4,000 French troops repulsed 16,000 British

Question: Which country enjoyed the most success in battles in North America in 1759
Answer: All of Britain's campaigns against New France succeeded in 1759

Question: What two forts fell on the same day in 1758?
Answer: Fort Niagara and Fort Carillon on 8 July 1758 fell to sizable British forces

Question: When did General Wolfe take Quebec?
Answer: On 13 September 1759, following a three-month siege of Quebec, General James Wolfe defeated the French

Question: Did the French take Quebec back?
Answer: they were unable to retake Quebec

Question: What military advantage brought the success for the British in defending Quebec?
Answer: British naval superiority

Question: Where did the French attack in 1762?
Answer: St. John's, Newfoundland

Question: What advantage would taking St. John's have provided for the French?
Answer: the expedition would have strengthened France's hand at the negotiating table

Question: Did the French hold St. John's?
Answer: French forces were eventually defeated by British troops

Question: Did the French take St. John's?
Answer: they took St. John's

Question: Where was the final battle between the French and British in North America?
Answer: Battle of Signal Hill

Question: Name two major events of the Seven Years' War In North America.
Answer: the expulsion of the Acadians, the siege of Quebec