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Seven Years War (1756-1763): Map of capture of Belle Isle (June 1761), 1765. The British succeeded in storming the main citadel of the island, located on the Atlantic coast off Brittany, after a second landing led by General Studholme Hodgson and a subsequent six-week siege. Map Published in 1765 by the cartographer Jean de Beaurain (1696-1771) as an illustration of his "Great Map of Germany, with the events that took place during the Seven Years War". French edition, 1765.