Relaçam, dos progressos, e estado em que se achão as Guerras da Europa na situação presente com huma cabal noticia dos seus particulares no principio da Primavera.

[Colophon] Lisbon, Na Officin. junto a S. Bento de Xabregas, 1757.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, stitched. Caption title. Light browning. In very good condition. 8 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this survey of martial activities across Europe during the Spring of 1757. The Prussians mustered 95,000 men plus 50,000 from Silesia and additional auxiliary troops, and captured Rittberg, the home of the Count of Caunitz. Meanwhile, thousands of Saxon soldiers who had been forced to join the Prussian army were deserting; Frederick the Great ordered that their possessions in Saxony be confiscated and their families be forced to pay for the equipment they had taken with them. The French (with whom the author sympathizes) were still in Cleves, and Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise, was preparing to invade the electorate of Hanover (June and July 1757).A joint statement from the kings of France and Sweden stated that they were merely defending the Peace of Westphalia (1648), according to which power in the Holy Roman Empire was to remain in the hands of the electors, not a strong emperor. The final section of the Relaçam describes military preparations in Sardinia, Naples, Sicily, Genoa, and Parma, and reprints the King of Spain's decree that none of his subjects are to trade with the Republic of Genoa.The Seven Years’ War, 1756-1763, was waged in Europe, North America (where it began in 1754, and is known as the French and Indian War), Central and South America, West Africa, India (the Third Carnatic War), and the Philippines. Prussia, Great Britain, and (from 1761) Portugal were allied against France, Austria, Spain (from 1761), Russia (until 1762), Sweden (1757-1762), Saxony, and the Mughal Empire (from 1757). Aside from venting the ongoing antagonism amongst the Bourbons, Habsburgs, and Hohenzollerns, the countries were battling for overseas colonies and commercial superiority. As a result of the war, Great Britain annexed Canada, much North American territory west of the Alleghenies, and Florida, and became dominant in the Indian subcontinent. France transferred Louisiana to Spain. Prussia gained influence at the expense of the Holy Roman Empire, which is often considered to be the starting point for the rise of the modern German state. Removal of the French threat to the thirteen North American Colonies, and British attempts to obtain revenues from these colonies to compensate for wartime expenditures were major factors in the movement for Independence culminating in the American Revolution.*** Coimbra, Miscelâneas 1258, 1045. Not in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Porbase locates four copies, all at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc.