Seven Years' War in the Caribbean

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The Seven Years' War in the Caribbean was the regional theater of the global Seven Years' War, marked by intense naval battles and colonial struggles between European powers for control of lucrative Caribbean islands and trade routes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf theater of war
affectedTerritory Guadeloupe
Havana, Cuba
surface form: Havana

Jamaica
Martinique
French colony of Saint-Domingue
surface form: Saint-Domingue
conflictIn Caribbean Sea
West Indies
conflictType colonial war
naval warfare
trade war
economicImpactOn Atlantic slave trade
plantation economies
sugar trade
endTime 1763
hasMainBelligerent Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Spain
historicalPeriod 18th century
includedEvent capture of Guadeloupe (1759)
surface form: British capture of Guadeloupe (1759)

Siege of Havana (1762)
surface form: British capture of Havana (1762)

British capture of Martinique (1762)
French privateering in the Caribbean
naval blockade of French Caribbean colonies
location Atlantic Ocean
Caribbean islands
Greater Antilles
Lesser Antilles
mainObjective control of Caribbean sugar islands
control of Caribbean trade routes
participant Royal Navy
surface form: British Royal Navy

Dutch Republic
French Navy
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Spain
Spanish Navy
partOf Seven Years' War
relatedTo Anglo-French rivalry
British Empire
French colonial empire
Spanish Empire
surface form: Spanish colonial empire
result British naval supremacy in the Caribbean
territorial changes in the Caribbean
startTime 1756
strategicImportance disruption of enemy colonial commerce
protection of transatlantic convoys
treaty Treaty of Hubertusburg
Treaty of Paris (1763)

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Juan de Prado Malleza Portocarrero y Luna conflict Seven Years' War in the Caribbean
capture of Guadeloupe (1759) theater Seven Years' War in the Caribbean
this entity surface form: Caribbean theater of the Seven Years' War