Second Hundred Years' War

Second Hundred Years' War
Part of the Anglo-French Wars

Left to right, top to bottom:
Date18 May 1689 – 20 November 1815 (1689-05-18 – 1815-11-20)
(126 years, 6 months and 2 days)
Location
Result British victory
Territorial
changes
Britain annexes Canada, French India, Malta, Ionian islands, St Vincent, Dominica, St. Lucia, Tobago, Mauritius and Seychelles from France
Belligerents
Great Britain France
Commanders and leaders

The Second Hundred Years' War is a periodization or historical era term used by some historians[1][2][3] to describe the series of military conflicts around the globe between Great Britain and France that occurred from about 1689 (or some say 1714) to 1815, including several separate wars such as the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The Second Hundred Years' War is named after the Hundred Years' War, which occurred in the 14th and 15th century. The term appears to have been coined by J. R. Seeley in his influential work The Expansion of England (1883).[4]

  1. ^ Buffinton, Arthur H. The "Second Hundred Years War", 1689–1815 (registration required). New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929.
  2. ^ Crouzet, François (December 1996). "The Second Hundred Years War: Some Reflections" (subscription required). French History. Volume 10, Issue 4. pp. 432–450. doi:10.1093/fh/10.4.432.
  3. ^ Scott, H. M. (June 1992). "Review: The Second 'Hundred Years War' 1689–1815", The Historical Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 443–469. JSTOR 2639677.
  4. ^ Morieux, Renaud (February 2009). "Diplomacy from Below and Belonging: Fishermen and Cross-Channel Relations in the Eighteenth Century". Past & Present. 202, p. 83. JSTOR 25580920.