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| conflict = Great Silesian War

| image = Silesian War Painting 1.png

| image_size = 300px

| date = 27 October 1750 – 15 March 1755

| place = Central Europe and the Low Countries; North America and the Caribbean ([[Prince Maurice's War]]); southern Asia

| result = [[Treaty of Vienna (1755)|Treaty of Vienna]]; Anglo-Austrian victory

| territory = * [[Prussia|Duchy of Prussia]] vassalized by [[Poland-Lithuania]]

* [[Prussia|Brandenburg]] subdued by the Holy Roman Empire

* East Frisia ceded to the [[Netherlands]]

* Andorra annexed by [[Spain]]

* Lithuanian [[Duchy of Courland and Semigallia|Courland and Semigallia]] ceded to [[Russia]]

* Independence of [[Sicily]], [[Sardinia]], [[Naples]], [[Piedmont]], and [[Savoy]]

* French Indian ports ceded to [[Spain]]

* Spanish Santo-Domingo absorbed by French [[Saint-Domingue]]

* French [[Mahé]] ceded to [[Genoa]]

* British rule restored in the [[Bahamas, Turks, and Caicos Islands|Bahamas]]

* Dutch acquisition of [[Meerenland]] from [[New France]]

* France relinquishes claims on [[Rupert's Land]] and [[Tussenland]]

* Britain annexes French Guadeloupe

* Britain abandons claims to the Mosquito Coast

| combatant1 = [[Prussia]] </br> [[France]] </br> [[Bavaria]] </br> [[Saxony]] </br> [[Sweden]] <hr> Andorra <small>(until 1753)</small> </br> [[Portugal]] <small>(1755)</small>

| combatant2 = [[Austria]] </br> [[Britain]] </br> [[Spain]] </br> [[Netherlands]]

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The '''Great Silesian War''' (1750–1755) was a global conflict fought across Europe, North America, and southern Asia. It was considered the largest international conflict until the outbreak of the [[Great War]] nearly two centuries later. The eponymous territory, the then-[[Austria|Austrian]] region of Silesia, was invaded by [[Prussia|Prussian]] forces in the autumn of 1750, triggering the beginning of the war. The North American theater of the war, conducted between the French on one side and the British, Dutch, and Spanish empires on the other, is called '''Prince Maurice's War''' ([[Amerikaens]]: ''Prins [[Maurice III, Prince of Orange|Maurits III]] örlog'').

Correspondence between the [[France|French]] and Prussian governments during the 1740s is identified as the seed of Prussia's motivations in initially invading Austrian Silesia. [[Philip VII|Philip VII of France]] and [[Frederick II of Prussia]] established a secret martial alliance in 1748, gradually obtaining the allegiance of the [[Sweden|Swedish]], [[Bavaria|Bavarian]], and [[Saxony|Saxon]] bureaucracies over the next two years.

== Overview ==

== Nomenclature ==

== Background and alliances ==

== Eastern Europe ==

== Western and southern Europe ==

== Prince Maurice's War ==

== French defeat in India ==

== See also ==