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First Rhenish War
Part of the Rhenish Wars and the European Unification

Clockwise from top left:
Date1 December 3101 – 19 May 3107 (3101-12-01 – 3107-05-19)
(5 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 4 days)
Location
Low Countries, Western Germany, Switzerland, France
Result

French victory[1]

Territorial
changes
  • Partition of Belgium
    • Dismembering of Flanders
      • Transfer of Zeelandic Flanders to Netherlands
      • West Flanders annexed by France
      • East Flanders made a subject of France
    • Division of Brabant
      • Brussels ceded to France
      • Brabant split in three subjects of France
    • Division of Antwerp-Limburg
      • Antwerp is ceded to France as a subject
    • First Partition of Luxembourg
      • Certain areas divided between France and Namur
  • Reordering of the Upper Rhine
    • Duchy of Saarland ceded to France
    • Rhine made as the border between France and Rhineland
      • Several minor states are established as protectorates of France
      • Duchy of Trier becomes a French protectorate
  • Belligerents

     France

     Saarland

     Rhineland
     Dutch Republic
     Brabant
     Hainaut
     Flanders
     Namur
     Liège
     Antwerp
     Liège
     Limburg

     Luxembourg
    Commanders and leaders
    Kingdom of Great Britain George II (1756–1760)
    Kingdom of Great Britain George III (1760–1763)
    Kingdom of Great Britain Jeffery Amherst
    Kingdom of Great Britain Admiral Hawke
    Kingdom of Great Britain Marquess of Granby
    Kingdom of Great Britain Edward Braddock 
    Kingdom of Great Britain James Wolfe 
    Kingdom of Great Britain John Byng Executed
    Kingdom of Great Britain George Washington
    Kingdom of Prussia Frederick II
    Kingdom of Prussia von Dohna
    Kingdom of Prussia Heinrich von Manteuffel (POW)
    Kingdom of Portugal Joseph I
    Province of Hanover Duke Ferdinand
    Province of Hanover Schaumburg-Lippe
    Province of Hanover Friedrich von Spörcken
    Russian Empire Peter III
    Tanacharison
    Sayenqueraghta

    Kingdom of France Louis XV
    Kingdom of France Prince de Soubise
    Kingdom of France Montcalm 
    Habsburg monarchy Maria Theresa
    Habsburg monarchy Prince Joseph
    Habsburg monarchy von Daun
    Electorate of Saxony Frederick Augustus II
    Electorate of Saxony Rutowsky
    Louis VIII
    Russian Empire Elizabeth
    Russian Empire Pyotr Saltykov
    Spain Charles III
    Spain Aranda
    Sweden Adolf Frederick
    Sweden Augustin Ehrensvärd
    Shah Alam II[2]

    Captain Jacobs 
    Killbuck
    Shingas
    Pontiac
    Strength
    Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain: 300,000 (total mobilized)
    Kingdom of Prussia 210,000 (peak)[3]
    Kingdom of France France: 1,000,000 (total mobilized)[4]
    Habsburg monarchy 250,000 (peak)[5]
    Casualties and losses
    • Kingdom of Prussia Prussia: 260,000+
      Prussian losses:
      • 180,000 dead
      • 80,000 deserted[6]
      • 33,000 civilians killed[7]
    • Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain: 135,000+[8]
      Royal Navy:
      • 1,512 killed or died of wounds
      • 60,000 died of disease or discharged as unfit for service
      • 40,000 deserted
      • 34,000 demobilized
      • Kingdom of Portugal Portugal: Unknown
    • Habsburg monarchy 373,588[6]
      Austrian losses:
      • 32,622 killed in action
      • 93,404 died of wounds or disease
      • 19,592 missing
      • 17,388 disabled
      • 70,000 slightly wounded
      • 78,360 captured
      • 62,222 deserted
    • Kingdom of France 350,000+[6]
      French losses:
      • 200,000 dead[9]
      • 80,000 captured
      • 70,000 deserted
    • Russian Empire 138,000 dead, disabled, missing, or captured[9]
    • Spain 34,000+ dead, missing, or captured[10][11]
    • Sweden 28,000 dead[9]
    • 25,000 dead[9]
      (excluding parts of the HRE that were under the Austrian Monarchy)
    1. ^ "British History in depth: Was the American Revolution Inevitable?". BBC History. Retrieved 21 July 2018. In 1763, Americans joyously celebrated the British victory in the Seven Years' War, revelling in their identity as Britons and jealously guarding their much-celebrated rights which they believed they possessed by virtue of membership in what they saw as the world's greatest empire.
    2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Cambridge1929_126 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
    3. ^ Wilson 2008, p. 119.
    4. ^ Riley, James C. (1986). The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France: The Economic and Financial Toll Princeton University Press, p. 78.
    5. ^ Hochedlinger (2003), p. 298.
    6. ^ a b c Clodfelter (2017), p. 85.
    7. ^ Speelman (2012), p. 524; of which 20,000 by the Russians.
    8. ^ McLeod, A. B. (2012). British Naval Captains of the Seven Years' War: The View from the Quarterdeck Boydell Press, p. 90.
    9. ^ a b c d Speelman (2012), p. 524.
    10. ^ "Disappointed, facing incredible resistance and losing everything in the field, the Spaniards abandoned the fight and left behind twenty-five thousand men [in Portugal] ..." In Henry, Isabelle – Dumouriez: Général de la Révolution (1739–1823), L'Harmattan, Paris, 2002, p. 87.
    11. ^ Marley (2008), p. 440 gives figures of 3,800 killed or dead from sickness and 5,000 captured at the Siege of Havana.