The familiar labels for eighteenth-century wars can hide how geographically wide and politically connected they were. There were global wars before the conflicts conventionally numbered One and Two. The phrase Second Hundred Years' War describes the long sequence of Anglo-French and allied struggles surrounding the Great Siege. That frame treats the short peaces as interludes inside a continuing contest rather than as clean breaks between unrelated wars.
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A Second Hundred Years' War links the supposedly separate conflicts
The Seven Years' War, American Revolution, and French Revolutionary conflicts appear as phases in a longer global rivalry separated by short peaces.