Writing Groups Third Meeting!

**Innocentius** · 12-13-2006, 14:16

Originally Posted by matteus the inbred

Well, the various major 18th century conflicts started in the following years...(major ones highlighted)

1700: Great Northern War (ended 1721, but various further Russo-Swedish wars occur throughout the century)
1701: War of Spanish Succession (Marlborough etc.) (various conflicts continue until about 1727)
1733-38: War of the Polish Succession
1735-39: Russo-Turkish War
1739-42: Anglo-Spanish War (War of Jenkins' Ear) merging into...
1740-48: War of Austrian Succession (Frederick the Great etc.)
1745-46: last Jacobite rebellions
1754-63: Seven Years' War (inc. French and Indian Wars, Carnatic War, Third Silesian War)
1768-1774: Russo-Turkish War (again!)
1775-1783: American War of Independence
1787-1792: Russo-Turkish War (Austria join in as well this time)
1789-1799: French Revolution, leading to the Napoleonic Wars.

While I realise (and hope) that there's going to be more to this project than wars and battles, political intriguing and war are never going to be too far away, so something based around one or more of these would be sensible.

How come the Great Northern War is not highlighted? The Great Northern War lead to the decline of Sweden as a great power while Russia became a great power instead. This changed the politcial scene in Europe pretty dramatically.

**matteus the inbred** · 12-13-2006, 14:36

Partly cos I did not know how important it was, thankyou for pointing this out to me, partly cos it occurs very early in our chosen period, and partly cos I think not too many people will have heard of it (while understanding that this latter point does not make it a less significant event). I think by 'major' I meant; having a very wide impact, including possibly outside of Europe, although in retrospect I think that the Russo-Swedish War could certainly be argued to be eligible by this vaguely expressed criteria. It's now highlighted anyway!

Guys: please do add your 'personal favourite 18th century war' if it's not been highlighted or mentioned, this is not meant to be definitive or an 'official writing group policy' list or anything, I'm just posting a brief and scantily researched list of conflicts that we might like to include in the story.

I guess we can argue the case for some or all of them, and the ones I haven't mentioned, at this stage, I have no personal preferences. Innocentius has just proved I don't know anything about Scandinavian history anyway!

**Warluster** · 12-13-2006, 21:30

Well the seven years war is pretty cool, because it is llike WW1 with swords.
I say 7 years war, what do you think?

**Prince Cobra** · 12-14-2006, 00:00

My plot will be about somebody (who still have no biography) in the court of Maria Teresia (born 1713 - died 1780; ruled between 1740-1780). So everything related to this is OK

**Lord Winter** · 12-14-2006, 00:43

I'd vote great northern war. Pleanty of russian back stabings rebellions, points where all seemed lost ect

**Motep** · 12-14-2006, 03:40

My vote lies within the seven years war!

**Julian the apostate** · 12-14-2006, 06:02

siege of vienna? perhaps and then focus on the deconstruction of poland with characters and perspectives from the 3 countries that destroyed it, the turks and mutliple classes?