Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated 28.03.2005
SEVEN YEARS' WAR, 1756-1763
The War in Europe
  Causes
  Chronology
  Results
  Forces & Casualties
  Commanders
  Battles & Battle Honours 		  Order of  Battle
  Campaign Medals
  Societies, Forums, Re-Enactors
  Museums & Memorials
  Bibliography  
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   Causes

     

   Chronology (except battles, which see below)
 
 
 
   Results

     

   Forces and Casualties
 
 
peak forces
total forces
total dead
KIA
NCD
civilian dead
WIA
PW-MIA
  subtotal
  TOTAL
                   
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   Battles & Battle Honours
Index of Battle Honours
 
Date Battles
(Battle Honours are shown in bold face) 		Regiments
(regiments awarded Battle Honours are shown in bold face)
Note:  Battle honours awarded as noted below. No campaign medal clasps were awarded.
Minorca and French Coast
1756 Apr. 19-
   1756 June 28		 Minorca
Inf: F4 F23 F24 F34
   
1757 Sep. 23-
   1757 Oct. 1		 Rochefort
(Isle d'Aix)
Inf: 1/F3 2/F3 F5 1/F8 2/F8 F15 1/F20 2/F24 F25 F30 F50 F51
1758 June 5-7 St. Malo
Cav: [lt tps of nine Dgn rgts: D1+D2+D3+D6+D7+D10+D11+?]
Inf: ?/G1 ?/G2 ?/G3 F5 F8 F20 F23 F24 F25 F30 F33 F34 F36F68 F69
1758 Aug. 8-
   1758 Sep. 11		 Cherbourg-St.Cast
Cav: [lt tps of nine Dgn rgts: D1+D2+D3+D6+D7+D10+D11+?]
 Inf: G1 F5 F24 F30 F33 F34 F36 F67 F68 F71 F72
   
  • Cherbourg, by John Fortescue (History of the British Army)
1761 Apr. 8-
   1761 June 7
Belleisle
awarded 1951(aka: Belle Isle)
Cav: LD16(2tps)
Inf: F3 F9 F19 F21 F30 F36 F67 F69 F71 F72 F75 F85 F90 F94 F97 F98 F103
Ireland
1758 Carrickfergus
Inf: F62(6coys)
   
 
Germany
1759 Aug. 1
Minden
awarded 1801
Cav: DG1 DG3 D2
Inf: F12 F20 F23 F25 F37 F51
Arty: MindenBtys
   
1760 Jan. 7 Eybach
Inf: F87
 
1760 July 10 Corbach
(aka: Sachsenhausen)
Cav: DG1 DG2 DG3
Inf: F5 F8 F24 F50 F51
 
1760 July 16
Emsdorf
awarded 1768
(the first battle honour)
Cav: LD15
 
1760 July 30 Kalle
Inf: F87 F88
 
1760 July 31
Warburg
awarded 1909
Cav: HG3 DG1 DG2 DG3 H3 H4 D1 D2 D6 D7 D10 D11
Inf: F87 F88 flank coys of: F5 F8 F11 F12 F20 F23 F24 F25 F33 F37 F50 F51
 
1760 Aug. 6 Zirenberg
Inf: F5 F8 F87 F88
 
1760 Oct. 14 Warburg
Inf: F87 F88
 
1760 Oct. 16 Kloster Kampen
Cav: D1 D6 D10 D15
Inf: F5 F8 F11 F20 F23 F25 F33 F51 F87 F88
 
1761 July 15-16 Vellingshausen
(aka: Kirsch Denkern)
Cav: RHG DG1 DG2 DG3 H3 H4 D1 D2 D6 D7 D10 D11
Inf: G1 G2 G3 F5 F8 F11 F12 F20 F23 F24 F25 F37 F50 F51 F87 F88
 
  Capelnhagar
Cav: D11
Inf:
 
  Foorwohle
Cav: D11
Inf:
 
1762 June 24
Wilhelmstahl
(aka: Grafenstein, Grebenstein)
awarded 1836
Cav: RHG DG1 DG2 DG3 H3 H4 D1 D2 D6 D10 LD15
Inf: G1 G2 G3 F5 F8 F87 F88 GrenBn(F11+F24+F33+F50) LtBn(F12+F20+F23+F25+F37+F51)
 
1762 Cassel
Cav: DG2 D11
Inf: F8
 
1762 Sep. 21-22 Amöneberg
(including Brückemühl)
Cav: RHG DG1 LD15
Inf: G1 G2 G3 F87 F88 1GrenBn 2GrenBn 3GrenBn
(also Hanoverian and Hessian forces)
 
1759-1763 Germany
Cav: RHG DG1 DG2 DG3 H3 H4 D1 D2 D6 D7 D10 D11 LD15 LD17(det)
Inf: G1 G2 G3 F5 F8 F11 F12 F20 F23 F24 F25 F33 F37 F50 F51 F87 F88
 
Iberian Peninsula
1762 Aug. Valencia
Cav: LD16(det) Inf: [6coys]
 
1762 Oct. 7 Vila-Velha
Cav: LD16(det) Inf: [GrenCoy]
(also Portuguese forces)
 
1762 Nov. Marvao
Inf: F83(coy)
(also Portuguese forces)
 
1762 May 6-
   1763 Feb.		 Iberian Peninsula
Cav: LD16 RA: [8coys]
Inf: F3 F67 F75 F83 F85 F91 F92 F115 GrenBn
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  • Note: no British medals were awarded.
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