Examples of King George's War in the following topics:
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- The war gained its colorful name from a Spanish threat against British captain Robert Jenkins, whose ear was severed when his ship was boarded; he was told to show his ear to Parliament and tell the king that the Spanish would do the same to him.
- The war was largely subsumed by the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742.
- King William's War (1689–1697), also known as the "Nine Years War" and the "War of the League of Augsburg," was a phase in the larger Anglo-French conflict for colonial domination throughout the world.
- The Iroquois suffered heavily in King William's War and were brought, along with other western American Indians, into the French trading network.
- King George's War, 1744–1748, was the North American phase of the concurrent War of the Austrian Succession.
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- The war gained its colorful name from a Spanish threat against British captain Robert Jenkins, whose ear was severed when his ship was boarded; he was told to show his ear to Parliament and tell the king that the Spanish would do the same to him.
- The war was largely subsumed by the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742.
- King William's War (1689–97), also known as the Nine Years War and the War of the League of Augsburg, was a phase of the larger Anglo-French conflict for colonial domination throughout the world.
- Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent, and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
- King George's War (1744–48) was the North American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession .
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- Also in 1740, Frederick the Great of the Hohenzollern dynasty took the title of King of Prussia upon his father's death.
- Theoretically, this positioned Frederick as a sovereign king of Prussia but under the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor as the ruler of Brandenburg.
- However, the 1537 agreement had been rejected by the Bohemian king Ferdinand I of Habsburg soon after it was reached and never came into effect.
- It included King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins' Ear (formally began in 1739), the First Carnatic War in India, the Jacobite rising of 1745 in Scotland, and the war over Silesia (First and Second Silesian Wars).
- Thus the Second Silesian War (1744–1745) began.
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- The Battle of Bunker Hill took place mostly on and around Breed's Hill during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War.
- King George's attitude toward the colonies hardened, and the news may have contributed to his rejection of the Continental Congress' Olive Branch Petition, the last substantive political attempt at reconciliation.
- Discuss the significance of the Battle of Bunker Hill for the future course of the Revolutionary War
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- In Blackstone's Comment, Last published in 1765, Americans in the Thirteen Colonies read that "the right of petitioning the king, or either house of parliament, for the redress of grievances" was a "right appertaining to every individual. "
- In 1776, the Declaration of Independence cited King George's perceived failure to redress the grievances listed in colonial petitions, such as the Olive Branch Petition of 1775, as a justification to declare independence: "In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
- Historically, the right can be traced back to English documents such as Magna Carta, which, by its acceptance by the monarchy, implicitly affirmed the right, and the later Bill of Rights 1689, which explicitly declared the "right of the subjects to petition the king. "
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- The rapidity, silence, and ferocity of their war parties proved devastating against the colonial style of waging war; though the colonials generally emerged successful in the long term.
- After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, British territories in the Americas were slowly granted more responsible government.
- George's, Bermuda.
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- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Reverend Martin Luther King Sr., and Alberta Williams King.
- At that time, most of the students had abandoned their studies to participate in World War II.
- In the following years leading up to his death, he expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War—alienating many of his liberal allies, particularly with a 1967 speech entitled "Beyond Vietnam."
- He frequently spoke of the need for fundamental changes in the political and economic life of the nation, and expressed his opposition to the war and his desire to see a redistribution of resources to correct racial and economic injustice.
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- In 1775, the Colonies proposed the Olive Branch Petition to reconcile with Britain and avert war, but King George III denied the petition.
- However, a small faction of delegates, led by John Adams, argued that war was
inevitable.
- The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in an attempt to avoid a war with Great Britain.
- King George indicated that
he intended to deal with the crisis with armed force.
- The Second Continental Congress maintained that they still hoped to avoid a "civil war".
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- King Philip's War was fought between the Wampanoag tribe of New England and the English colonists and their Native American allies.
- King Philip's allies began to desert him.
- The war was the single greatest calamity to occur in 17th century Puritan New England.
- Before King Philip's War, they had mostly been ignored as uninteresting and poor English outposts.
- King Philip, also known as Metacom, led the Wampanoag Indians in King Philip's War.
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- In the 13th century, after the Magna Carta failed to prevent the Baron Wars, King John and his son King Henry III's reigns were characterized by numerous rebellions and civil wars, often provoked by incompetence and mismanagement in government.
- The outbreak of war was motivated by a gradual rise in tension between the kings of France and England about Guyenne, Flanders, and Scotland.
- The king of France had the power to revoke all legal decisions made by the king of England in Aquitaine, which was unacceptable to the English.
- Then war continued, and the English were victorious at the Battle of Poitiers (1356), where the French king, John II, was captured and held for ransom.
- In May 1369, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England, refused an illegal summons from the French king demanding he come to Paris, and Charles responded by declaring war.