Queen Anne's War

(1702–1713) The second of the four intercolonial wars waged by Britain and France for control of colonial North America, known in Europe as the War of the Spanish Succession. Both sides made considerable use of Indian allies. Settled by the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), the war resulted in British control of Newfoundland, Acadia, and Hudson Bay. Britain also gained the asiento, an agreement to send slaves to Spanish America, and to engage in general trade.

Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of four French and Indian Wars fought between France and Great Britain in North America for control of the continent and was the counterpart of War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.

Early in the war, in 1702, the English captured and burned Spanish-held St. Augustine, Florida. However, the English were unable to take the main fortress of St. Augustine, resulting in the campaign being condemned by the English as a failure. The Spanish maintained St. Augustine and Pensacola for more than a century after the war, but their mission system in Florida was destroyed. English military aid to the colonists was largely ineffective or deflected in defense of the areas around Charleston, South Carolina, and the New York–New England frontier with the Canadian territories. The peace lasted until the next of the French and Indian Wars, King George's War in 1744.

The British conquest of Acadia would ultimately bring severe consequences for its French inhabitants. In 1755, during the French and Indian War, many would be expelled from the colony. The Iroquois League remained neutral in this war.