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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Example Sentences

Unlike Queen Anne's War, King George's War seemed to stimulate tobacco prices and they remained relatively good for a number of years after the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748.

From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by Herndon, G. Melvin

Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713 This war was carried on in much the same manner as the last.

From This Country of Ours by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

The bitter struggle on the high seas and in the colonies, where it was known as Queen Anne's War, will be treated in another place.

From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Hayes, Carlton J. H.

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 Hayward, Arthur L.

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 Robinson, James Harvey