User:Lord Cornwallis/Invasion scare of 1756
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The Invasion scare of 1756 took place in Great Britain during the early stages of the Seven Years War when an imminent invasion by French forces was widely expected to be launched. Extensive defensive preparations were made, but France instead attacked Minorca in the Mediterranean Sea. Britain responded to the threat of invasion by forming hastily raised militia as well as hiring Hanoverian and Hessian troops to supplement Britain's own regular army.
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Gradually the threat shifted away from Britain's coasts to other strategic positions, particularly when France invaded Hanover in 1757. Despite the controversy over the loss of Minorca, Britain shifted to a more offensive warfare and launched assaults on French positions in the Americas, ultimately Conquering Canada as well as taking wealthy sugar-producing islands such as Guadeloupe and Martinique. A second French invasion scheme was derailed by the decisive naval Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759.