Synopsis
Neil Oliver explains the causes of the Seven Years War and the impact that it would have on British (especially Scottish) trading
- Programme: A History of Scotland
- Series: 2
- Episode: The Price of Progress
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2009
- History | Warfare and British society, c790-present | c1700-c1900: Warfare and British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | Case studies
Licence: ERA Licence required
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