Seven Years War, Part 2, 2nd Hundred Years War Part 26

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This one covers :

• European grand strategy with a focus on the opening of the naval war and the execution of Admiral Byng.  
• The Prussian part of the war in significant detail with focus on Frederick's two miracles.
• The War in India, including the Battle of Plessey and the attempted attack on Bengal by the VOC.  The Black Hole of Calcutta serves as impetus for the EIC to conquer Bengal, though it seems Robert Clive's conspiracy with Mir Jaffar was possibly already underway.

There is a digression on the Russian intervention against Prussia focusing in on the parts of the military enlightenment Russia had just not caught up with.  Logistics.

With Camie there is a discussion of whether Russia is barbaric at this time.  I argue that from the miracle lens, i.e. were they going forward to creating the Industrial Revolution? Russia was barbaric.