King George's War

noun

1. a war (1744–48) waged by England and its colonies against France, constituting the North American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession.

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There was, indeed, among intelligent Americans, a very general perception that King George's war against his transatlantic subjects was anything but popular with the great mass of the overtaxed English people.

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Because George II. was on the throne of England, the struggle is known in this country as King George's War.

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Louisburg, on Cape Breton Island, which had been captured more than a hundred years before, during King George's War, was again taken by a naval expedition in the summer of 1758.

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King George’s War, 72, 79, 86.

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They are known in history as King William’s war, Queen Anne’s war, Lovewell’s or Dummer’s war and King George’s war.

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