Wars and Battles
Queen Anne's War
1702-1713

In 1702, Europe was again convulsed in war, this time over the issue of succession to the Spanish throne. In North America, the fighting involved not only the British and French in the north, but also the British against the Spanish in the south.

Like the previous conflict (King William’s War), the French and their Algonquian allies staged a series of devastating raids in Western New England. The attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts in early 1704 was especially notorious. The British forces under Francis Nicholson recommenced a northward push, capturing Port Royal in French Acadia in 1710. A British naval attack against Quebec, however, was not successful.

Hostilities in the south were highlighted by the British capture of Saint Augustine in Spanish Florida and by a failed Spanish attack against Charleston, South Carolina.

The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 ended the European and North American conflicts. The British received Acadia (renamed Nova Scotia), Newfoundland and fur trading posts in the Hudson Bay area. France managed to retain several islands in the Saint Lawrence River and Cape Breton Island at the northeastern end of Nova Scotia. The boundaries of the new British possessions were not spelled out with precision; warfare between the chief rivals, Britain and France, would resume in 1744.

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