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Queen Anne's War - The Second Contest for North America, 1702-1713 (Hardcover)
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Queen Anne's War - The Second Contest for North America, 1702-1713 (Hardcover)
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Although King William's War (1689-1697) had established the basic
disputes between New France and the English colonies, the conflict
had resolved little beyond making it clear that the smaller French
colony was more than capable of defending itself. When news of the
War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714), or Queen Anne's War as it
would become known in North America, arrived in 1702, few
envisioned that the resumption of the previous conflict would grow
to engulf eastern North America from Newfoundland to Florida,
pitting the Spanish, English, and French colonies along with their
respective native allies into a concerted contest for control of
the continent. From the storming of Spanish St. Augustine and the
opening shots along the Maine frontier, through the implementation
of a series of profit-driven Indian Wars and the destruction of the
Spanish mission system in Georgia and Florida, to the direct
involvement of Britain in the closing days of the conflict, Queen
Anne's War: The Second Contest for North America, 1702-1713 carries
the reader through this oft forgotten, but crucial period in North
American history. Told from the halls of power in North America and
Europe, and through the eyes of the men and women who found
themselves embroiled in this brutal realignment of colonial
interests, Queen Anne's War recreates the world of early North
American expansion at the ground level, providing riveting accounts
of the battles across settlements and wilderness as well as the
motives, conditions, triumphs, and failures of the Europeans and
their respective Native American allies. Based on extensive primary
source research and command of English, French, and Spanish
sources, the narrative not only describes the economic and
geopolitical ramifications of the war that reshaped North America,
but intriguingly reveals the sense of independence emerging in the
colonies, from Puritan New England to plantation South Carolina, at
the close of the war.
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