Seven Years’ War pitted Great Britain and France in a titanic struggle to

determine the fate of empire around the planet. Fought on five continents, the

Seven Years’ War saw the world’s two superpowers engage in the largest war in

world history at that time. In the year 1755 however the conflict was isolated

to a small corner of the North American world. In part one of this three part

episode we focus on the origins of the war in the year 1755.