Colonial Wars

1688- Successful coup instigated by a group of English aristocrats that overthrew King James II and instated William of Orange and Mary to the English throne

• War of the Roses
• Restoration of the Monarchy
• Glorious Revolution
• English Civil War

(1689-1697)- AKA War of the League of Augsburg

North American Theater of fighting in Nine Years War between British and French

Resulted in Status quo antebellum and peace of Ryswick

• Battle of Quebec
• King William’s War

• Treaty of Paris
• War of Spanish Succession

(1702-1713)- 12 year struggle between English, French, and Spanish, divided into European theatre and North American Theatre

• French and Indian War
• Thirty Years' War
• War of the Roses
• Queen Anne’s War

Permission given by the Spanish government to other countries to sell people as slaves to the Spanish colonies between 1543 and 1834

• Asiento
• Encomienda
• Repartimiento
• Mita

Planned to establish a colony in the New World for the poor, individuals suffering religious prosecution, or those looking for a fresh start

-Founder of the colony of Georgia

• William Penn
• James E. Oglethorpe

• John Smith
• Roger Williams

1729- British pledge that they will try to stop illegal trade, and concede rights to Spanish to board British ships if they have illegal cargo

• Treaty of Seville

• Asiento

• Navigation Acts

• British refuse to stop illegal trade and deny Spanish boarding rights.

(1739-1743)- War when Fandino claimed he was going to cut off the King’s ear as said in Jenkin’s testimony

• Seven Years' War
• War of the Spanish Succession
• War of Jenkins' Ear
• French and Indian War

(1744-1748)- North American theater of war that formed part of the larger European conflict- War of the Austrian Succession

-Comes down to Siege of Louisbourg

• King George’s War

• Battle of Quebec
• Siege of Fort Niagara
• Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

(1754-1763)- North American conflict between Great Britain and France over control of Ohio Valley with Native American tribes siding with either side

-ended with Treaty of Paris 1763

• War of the Spanish Succession
• American Revolutionary War
• Seven Years' War
• French and Indian War

Gets sent to the Juncture of three rivers because of reports of French activity, arrives with 41 other men who get surrounded and captured by French troops, he is the only one to make it out, and reports back to Dimwiddie who then dispatches troops

• William Trent

• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
• John Adams