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Queen Anne's War
The US GenWeb Archives is embarking on the US GenWeb Archives Pension Project. This project will endeavor to provide actual transcriptions of Pension related materials for all Wars prior to 1900. Transcripts, extracts and abstracts will be accepted and files will be placed in the USGenWeb Archives directory of the State and County of principal residence of the Pensioner. Below is a list of Wars that are being considered for this project, and the US GenWeb Archive Volunteer who will be coordinating the Pension collection effort for each of the Wars.
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History of the War
Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) was the second in a series of four French and Indian Wars fought in North America for control of the continent and was the counterpart of War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
Early in the war, the English captured Spanish-held St. Augustine, Florida in 1702. English military aid to the colonists was lately ineffective or deflected in defense of the areas around Charleston, South Carolina, and the New York-New England frontier with the Canadian territories. French forces and allied indigenous tribes attacked New England from Canada, destroying Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1704.
Following the capture of French-held Port Royal in 1710, Acadia became the British province of Nova Scotia. By 1712 an armistice was declared. Under terms spelled out in the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Britain gained Newfoundland, the Hudson Bay region, and the Caribbean island of St. Kitts.
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