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QUEEN ANNE'S WAR

Queen Anne's War was the second of the four North American wars, waged by the British and French between 1702 and 1713. Queen Anne's War arose from the issues left unresolved at the end of King William's War and the struggle corresponded to the European War of the Spanish Succession fought between the allied forces of Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Empire on one side and France and Spain on the other. The principal events of Queen Anne's War were the capture and burning in 1702 by English colonists of Saint Augustine, then a Spanish possession; the capture and burning of Deerfield, and the massacre of many of the inhabitants of the town in 1704 by French troops and their Indian allies; unsuccessful expeditions in 1704 and 1707 by troops from New England against Port Royal; the conquest of Acadia in 1710 by colonists supported by a squadron of British ships and commanded by the British colonial administrator Sir Francis Nicholson and the failure in 1711 of a large British and colonial joint military and naval expedition against Quebec and Montreal. The war was ended in 1713 by the Treaty of Utrecht, which also brought to a close the War of the Spanish Succession. By terms of this treaty the French ceded Acadia to the British, as well as Newfoundland and the Hudson Bay territory. The French retained Cape Breton Island.
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