. A history of the United States for secondary schools . n, which raged for twelve years (1702-1714), in theNetherlands, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, America,and on the sea. In American history it is called theQueen Second Intercolonial War, or Queen Annes wS!i702- War, — King William having died at the^^^*- beginning of it and being succeeded by the Princess Anne, sister to Queen Mary, who had died in1694. THE PERIOD OF STRIFE WITH FRANCE. 125 Again the French of Canada led their savage alliesinto Maine and New Hampshire, and down the valleyof the Connecticut, to do horrible work at Wells,
. A history of the United States for secondary schools . n, which raged for twelve years (1702-1714), in theNetherlands, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, America,and on the sea. In American history it is called theQueen Second Intercolonial War, or Queen Annes wS!i702- War, — King William having died at the^^^*- beginning of it and being succeeded by the Princess Anne, sister to Queen Mary, who had died in1694. THE PERIOD OF STRIFE WITH FRANCE. 125 Again the French of Canada led their savage alliesinto Maine and New Hampshire, and down the valleyof the Connecticut, to do horrible work at Wells, Saco,Casco, Deerfield, Lancaster, and other frontier settle-ments, in 1703 and 1704. Again there were retaliatingexpeditions which ravaged French settlements on theAcadian coast, and which finally, after a failure in 1706,captured Port Royal in 1709, and renamed it Annapolis,in honor of the queen. Again, too, there were under-takings, in 1709 and 1711, for the conquest of Canada,by expeditions in which colonial forces were to cooperate Scale OF Miled. M / A S * •<a? L A^ PRINCIPAL FIELD OF KING WILLIAMS AND QUEEN ANNES WAR. with English fleets and troops; but they were misman-aged and failed. The French had made peace with theFive Nations, binding the latter to neutrality, and theycould not strike the English in the valley of the Hud-son without intruding on the Iroquois domain. HenceNew England had to bear most of the suffering of thewar. In America the conflict was not favorable to theEnglish; but on the European field the English and 126 COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT. Dutch armies, commanded by the Duke of Marlborough,won a series of astonishing victories, which broke themilitary prestige of France and humbled its arrogantking. He was forced to cede Acadia (named NovaScotia by the English), Newfoundland, and HudsonBay to England, by the treaty of Utrecht, inUtrecht, I7n ; af^freeinG^ further that France should 1713. / vJ & t. never molest the Five Nations subject to thed
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