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Queen Anne's War(encyclopedia)
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Queen Anne's War (sh)




(1702-13) Second in a series of wars between Britain and France for control of North America.

It was the American phase of the War of the Spanish Succession. American colonial settlements along the New York and New England borders with Canada were raided by French forces and their Indian allies. The British capture of Port Royal (1710) resulted in French-held Acadia's becoming the British province of Nova Scotia. Under the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Britain also acquired Newfoundland and the Hudson Bay region from France.