The Colonial Wars

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  • Pequot War

    1634-1638,
    Short, vicious war between the Pequot tribe (Algonquian-speaking Indians of Connecticut), against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut and Plymouth English colonies with their Indian allies, the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. Perquot tribe was wiped out and forced to sign the Treaty of Hartford declaring the Pequot nation to be dissolved.

  • King Phillips war

    1675-1676
    Most brutal conflict between the Algonquian speaking Indian tribes and the English settlers of the New England colonies, ending in victory for the colonists. More than half of New England's 90 towns were assaulted by Native Indians.
    During King Philips war almost one out of every twenty people in the region, both whites and Indians, are killed. Over 600 colonists and 3,000 Indians were killed

  • KIng William's War

    1689-1687,
    First of the French and Indian Wars between France and the Wabanaki Confederacy against England and the Iroquois Confederacy. North American extension of the War of the Grand Alliance in Europe. The English captured Port Royal, Acadia (later Nova Scotia).
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  • Queen Anne's War

    1702-1713,
    Second of the series of conflicts and battles in the French and Indian Wars. During the war, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and several German states fought against France and Spain. border raids and fighting occurred between the French and English in North America. Taking of Port Royal and Treaty of Utrecht.

  • War of Jenkins' Ear

    1739-1748,
    Struggle between England and Spain. It grew out of the commercial rivalry of the two powers and led to involvement in the larger War of the Austrian Succession.

  • King George's War

    1755-1748
    It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars. King George's War was the North American extension of the War of the Austrian Succession in Europe. King George's War involved disputes over the boundaries of Nova Scotia and the borders of northern New England and control of the Ohio Valley.

  • French and Indian War

    1754-1763
    The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

  • Lord Dunmore's war

    Virginia-led attack on the Shawnee Indians of Kentucky, removing the last obstacle to colonial conquest of that area. Shawnee chiefs quickly agreed in the Treaty of Camp Charlotte to relinquish their hunting grounds to the white settlers.