Queen Anne's War

At a glance

Dates: 1702-03-08 – 1713-07-13.

Place: North America, United States.

Type: war.

What came before

Part of: War of the Spanish Succession, French and Indian Wars, and American Indian Wars.

Background Further information on causes of the war in Europe: War of the Spanish Succession Philip of Anjou proclaimed as the King of Spain in November 1700. A dispute over his succession led to war between the Grand Alliance and the Bourbon alliance. When war broke out in Europe in 1701 following the death of the last Habsburg monarch, Charles II , European powers disputed the succession. The zone of conflict was initially restricted to a few powers in Europe,

Timeline

Course of the war Carolina and Florida 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 . Prominent French and English colonists understood at the turn of the 18th century that control of the Mississippi River would have a significant role in future development and trade, and each developed visionary plans to thwart the other's activities.

What happened

Consequences Acadia and Newfoundland Shortly after the war, the French established the Fortress of Louisbourg . The fortified settlement was located to the north of the ceded Acadian territory, on Cape Breton Island . The loss of Newfoundland and Acadia restricted the French presence on the Atlantic to Île-Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island ) and Île-Royale (now Cape Breton Island ). French were resettled there from Newfoundland, and France constructed the Fortress of Louisbourg in the following years. [

Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) 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 as a standalone conflict. Elsewhere it is viewed as the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession. It is also known as the Third Indian War. In France it was known as the Second Intercolonial War.