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Seven Years’ War - MSN Encarta (685 words) |
 | In 1757, however, the British statesman William Pitt, 1st earl of Chatham, a pro-Prussian, was given complete charge of British foreign policy and appointed the British general James Wolfe to command the troops in the New World. |
| Conflict spilled over into India in 1756 as the Third Carnatic War, the last in a series of 18th-century conflicts between the French and the British for supremacy in the area. |
| The first two Carnatic wars had been fought mainly on the eastern coast of southern India, in a region called the Carnatic. |
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