Queen Anne’s War

Article abstract: Conflict resulting in British acquisition of French territory and commercial concessions from Spain.

Summary of Event

By the seventeenth century, colonial rivalries had involved European powers in global conflicts. The first, the Nine Years’ War (1689-1697), primarily an Anglo-French conflict, was known as King William’s War in North America, where all captured territory was restored by the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697. Warfare was renewed in the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713), whose North American phase was known as Queen...

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