Queen Anne's War

American  

noun

1. the war (1702–13) in which England and its American colonies opposed France and its Indian allies. It constituted the American phase of the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Queen Anne's War British  

noun

1. those conflicts (1702–13) of the War of the Spanish Succession that were fought in North America

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Queen Anne's War

King William's War, Queen Anne's War and the French and Indian War, were all waged before the difficulties were settled in the rout of the French from the continent.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

It was the latter end of Queen Anne's War when they sailed to Jamaica, and during the time they were out, took two Spanish galleons very richly laden.

From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward

The struggle which followed was known abroad as the War of the Spanish Succession, but in our country as Queen Anne's War.

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

The conflict was even more general than the Thirty Years' War; even in America there was fighting between French and English colonists, which passes in American histories under the name of Queen Anne's War.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson

Hardly a woman born of the generation preceding Queen Anne's War could write her name, and many of the most active and useful men could do no better.

From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various