The Oxford Companion to American Literature | French and Indian Wars
French and Indian Wars, name applied to the conflicts over Canada and the West involved in the territorial rivalry of France and Great Britain, and related to their larger imperial struggles abroad.
King William's War (1689–97), roughly the American counterpart of the War of the Grand Alliance, had as its most important result the capture of Port Royal (Annapolis, Nova Scotia) by Sir William Phips and his Massachusetts troops, who failed in their campaign against Quebec. The Treaty of Ryswick (1697) restored all captured towns and districts.
During Queen Anne's War (1702–13), which corresponded to the War of the Spanish Succession, several New England towns were sacked, but, by the Peace of Utrecht (1713), Acadia, Newfoundland, St. Kitts, and the Hudson's Bay territory were given to England.
King George's War (1744–48), part of the War of Jenkins' Ear and the War of the Austrian Succession, was signalized by Pepperell's capture...
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