EUROPEAN ARMIES OF THE SEVEN YEARS WAR ERA IN MODERN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE STUDIES

Abstract: the relevance of the study of the problem of military history of the Seven Year’s War era is primarily due to a number of cardinal differences in the approaches of modern European military history science and Russian historical tradition. For a long time, works of military historians had only a few differences with the classical ancient and medieval authors. As a rule, it was a narrative description of battles and military campaigns. The main emphasis in such studies was connected with the studies of talented commanders or rulers, the victiry reasons were often explained as a result of superior military talents, or luck and quality level of the army. This study may be useful for researchers who are interested in military history, teachers and lectures. It also contains references with a number of English-language studies aimed primarily at non-specialists in military affairs. The use of this studies as a source of factual and visual materials seems to be quite promising. The scientific relevance of the article is given by the fact that in Russian historiography, military history of such a period was considered virtually unfamiliar with the achievements of foreign historical science.

Keywords: Seven Years War, English-language historical science, Frederick the Great, army, military art

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