Queen Anne's War
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Queen Anne's War was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain. In the United States, it is regarded a
Fortifications of Port Royal, Acadia, (modern-day Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia) 1702.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville sought to establish a relationship with native people in the Mississippi watershed as a result of the last war with England.
New French raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, in February 1704
Hendrick Tejonihokarawa, a Mohawk chief, was successful in gaining support from Anne, Queen of Great Britain, to launch an expedition to take Quebec City.
King William's War
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King William's War was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War. It was the first of six colonial wars fought between New France and New England along with their respective Native allies befo
Queen Anne's War
…It is also known as the Third Indian War. In France it was known as the Second Intercolonial War. The war broke out in 1701, a mere four years after King William's War, and was primarily a conflict between French, Spanish and English colonists for control of the North American continent while the War of the Spanish…
Louis de Buade de Frontenac meeting with an English envoy prior to the Battle of Quebec
Major Richard Waldron shortly before his death during the Abenaki raid on Dover
William Phips, the Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, led an assault on Port Royal.
In 1696, a military campaign saw the sacking of English settlements on the Avalon Peninsula.