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

Following King George’s War, Britain and France began preparing for the next conflict by adding more Indian alliances, new forts, and additional trading posts in the Ohio country.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Creeks and Carolinians besieged St. Augustine in 1704, and a New England expedition in King George’s War took the massive French fortress of Louisburg on Cape Breton Island in northeast Canada.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

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.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles

King George's War, which extended over four years, succeeded, but did not amount to anything except the capture of Cape Breton by English and Colonial troops.

From Comic History of the United States by Opper, F.

As George II was then king of Great Britain, the colonists called the strife King George's War.

From A Brief History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach