Summer 2006: Week 4, Round 8
History: The Great European Wars
Given the years in which the wars started and ended, as well as the name of a major battle, provide the
name of the war in question.
NB: Most eighteenth-century European wars had a colonial sideshow associated with them, and these often went by different names, since they tended to involve just the French against the English. It is the name of the war in Europe, then, that we are looking for.
1. 429-449BC, Marathon
A: The Persian Wars
2. 265-146BC Cannae
A: The Punic Wars
3. 1337-1453, Agincourt
A: the Hundred Years' War
4. 1618-1648, Breitenfeld
A: the Thirty Years' War
5. 1701-1714, Blenheim
A: the War of the Spanish Succession
6. 1740-1748, Fontenoy
A: the War of the Austrian Succession
7. 1756-1763, Leuthen
A: the Seven Years War
8. 1800-1815, Austerlitz
A: the Napoleonic Wars
9. 1853-1856, Balaklava
A: the Crimean War
10. 1870-71, Sedan
A: the Franco-Prussian War