Which war forms the historical background of Minna von Barnhelm?

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German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Germany.

The historical background of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's comedy Minna von Barnhelm (1767) is the Seven Years' War, a conflict of national significance that involved a struggle between Prussia and Saxony.1