Imperial Wars

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General:

From the colonists' arrival,

they were in conflict

War was to obtain certain

political/economical/religious ends

English colonists objective

was to get rid of competition on ALL fronts

English 1st eliminated the

Dutch

Allowed the 2 English

colonies to connect to each other

Allowed for them to become

aligned with the 5 Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy

The Iroquois didn't like

the Algonquin Natives who were allied with the Catholic French

Overview:

King William's War

1688-1697

Queen Anne's War

1702-1713

King George's War

1744-1748

King William's War 1688-1697

Lasts 9 years

Reveals the disunity of the

colonies

England isn't helping their

American colonies tall. They are too busy with the war on their own home

front

European Affairs

Colonial Affairs

Other

Glorious Revolution puts

William, a Dutch Protestant, on the English thrown

King Louis XIV

Built Europe's largest

army

Uses them to push his

influence

The Grand Alliance is more

successful in their plights than the English colonists were in theirs

French raids English

settlements

At the same time, the

Dominion of New England is dissolved. It had essentially lumped from NJ

to Mass. Into one huge boarder

The colonies don't want

anything to do with each other. They have no motivation to come

together over anything.

New England raises its own

troops to fight back against the French in Canada.

Their quest to capture

Quebec and Montreal fail miserably

"soldiers" get

angry

Bad weather

Cold and ice

No cannons

French respond to the

attacks by sending more raiding parties, especially into Iroquois

villages

Great Peace of Montreal

This is a treaty signed

by the Iroquois that makes them neutral in all matters. They will not

help or hurt the French or British

New France was allied with

NA Algonquin due to the fur/hat trade

Queen Anne's War 1702-1713

(aka War of Spanish Succession)

Louis wants to put one of his

relatives on the Spanish thrown

No protestant wants that

North American colonies have

now expanded

Essentially, at the

conclusion of this war, it ends but with unfinished sentences

Despite the war going

relatively well for the English, not much has changed at all in the

colonies

A time of peach follows this

war

European Affairs

Colonial Affairs

Other

English do well in this

war because of Duke of Marlborough, and English military officer

Peace Treaty Utrecht

Ends fighting in Europe

Guarantees England will

be under Protestantism

English gain right to

import slaves to Spanish America

French get to put their

family member on the thrown of Spain

South Carolina colonists

attack Fort San Marcos (FL). Their attempt fails and the Spanish win

and retalliate

New England settlements

don't have NA support anymore, but they decide to try and capture

Canada again anyway

They're depending on

their superior navy

They attempt It the exact

way they did before

Manage to get Port Royal,

but still can't capture Quebec for same reasons as before

England is still not

supporting the colonies. They just don't really care what the colonies

are up to.

King George's War 1774-1748

(aka War of Austrian Succession)

Queen Anne has no legitimate

heirs to put on the thrown when she dies. Those who she does have are

Catholic, and they won't put a Catholic back on the thrown

European Affairs

Colonial Affairs

Other

King George II

German

A foreigner ruling

Britain, but that's ok because he isn't a Catholic

War of Jerkins's Ear

Jenkins is a slave

trader, but he's also smuggling things. Spanish search his ship, find

the smuggled goods, and cut off his ear which he then took to England

and complained about

British already though

that the Spanish were holding out on them (in terms of trade), so

Jerkins's Ear was another rallying cry.

British attack Spain and

fail

Peace comes in 1748

England trades Louisburg

away without colonist consent

Colonists get angry at

this

It also shows the Britain

doesn't care about colonist contribution

Capturing that city was a

BIG deal

New England tries to

capture Quebec again

Mass "soldiers"

attack Louisburg first this time and win at that but fail at capturing

Quebec

In response to Britain's

attack on them, Spain retaliates and tries to invade Georgia, but the

colonists hold their own and Spain fails

French join in on the war

now too

In the end…

Between the Glorious

Revolution and King George's War, 3 major and expensive wars have been

fought

The colonies still aren't

united

The wars haven't really

changed the balance of power in North America at alll

Britain has done very little

to help its colonists

The colonists think the wars

were worth-it to keep fighting because losing could mean they would be

controlled by a Catholic king, and they hated Catholics

The colonists had every

reason to believe that fourth war would be coming, and thought it would

look exactly like the past 3

They were right about a 4th

war, but wrong that it would look like the first 3