KING GEORGE'S WAR

'King George's War' is the name given to the operations in North America that formed part of the 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession. It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars.
The name "King George's War" is only used in the United States. In Britain, Canada, and France, this war is considered a theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession, with no separate name.
The War of Jenkins’s Ear officially began when a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of the English captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take that to his king, George II. War broke out in 1739 between the Spanish and British and was confined to the Caribbean Sea and the British colony of Georgia. This escalated into King George’s War in 1744 when the French joined the side of Spain. In 1745, British colonial forces captured the French stronghold of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, but this gain was returned to France under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle three years later, in exchange for the city of Madras in India, which the French had captured from the British.
The peace treaty, which restored all colonial borders to their pre-war status, did little to halt the enmity between France, Great Britain, and their colonies, nor did it resolve their territorial disputes. Austria shifted its allegiance from Great Britain to France, as Great Britain became allied with Prussia and the Russian Empire. Fighting resumed between the British and French in North America in 1754 with the outbreak of the French and Indian War, which spread to Europe two years later as the Seven Years' War.

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★ Fort at Number 4

★ Jonathan Moulton

★ John Goffe

★ Thomas Stickney

★ Plausawa

★ Nicolas Orontondi