King George's War

American  

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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Example Sentences

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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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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During King George’s war the Maliseet warriors did not, as in former Indian wars, assemble at Medoctec and turn their faces westward to devastate the settlements of New England, the scene of hostilities was now transferred to the eastward, Annapolis Royal, Beausejour and Louisbourg became the scene of hostilities and Aukpaque, not Medoctec, the place of rendezvous.

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