Examples of King William'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.
- 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.
- With his New England militia, Sir William Phips moved in 1690 to take the French strongholds at Port Royal and at Quebec.
- 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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- King Charles II of England began taking steps in the early 1680s to reorganize the New England colonies.
- After King James II published the Declaration of Indulgence in 1687, establishing some freedom of religion, Increase Mather sent a letter of appreciation to the king and suggested to other Massachusetts pastors that they also do so as a means to gain favor and influence.
- This was particularly problematic for Massachusetts because its long frontier with New France was exposed to French and Indian raids with the 1689 outbreak of King William's War.
- The cost of colonial defense resulted in a heavy tax burden, and the war also made it difficult to rebuild the colony's trade.
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- The Sovereign Council of New France was a political body appointed by the King of France in the 1675 reorganization of the colony of New France.
- Frontenac's second term was characterized by the defense of Quebec from a British invasion during King William's War, a successful guerrilla campaign against the Iroquois and English settlements which resulted in the elimination of the Iroquois threat against New France, and a large expansion of the fur trade.
- This is a scene from the French and Indian War (1754–1763), depicting the alliance of French and Native American forces.
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- The war sparked the rivalry between William III, who later conquered England as part of the Glorious Revolution, and Louis XIV.
- The Nine Years' War (1688–97), often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, once again pitted Louis XIV against a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and several princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
- It was fought primarily on mainland Europe and its surrounding waters, but it also encompassed a theater in Ireland and in Scotland, where William III and James II struggled for control of Britain and Ireland, and a campaign in colonial North America between French and English settlers and their respective Indian allies (known as King William's War).
- But when Leopold I and the German princes resolved to resist and when the States General and William III brought the Dutch and the English into the war against France, the French king at last faced a powerful coalition aimed at curtailing his ambitions.
- Louis also accepted William III as the rightful King of England, while the Dutch acquired their barrier fortress system in the Spanish Netherlands to help secure their own borders.
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- Yet to William III France's growing strength made war inevitable.
- However, before the War of the Spanish Succession was even declared, William died.
- By the same token, Anne continued William's policies and many leading statesmen of William's later years remained in office, which turned out fundamental to the success of the Grand Alliance in the early stages of the war.
- A Protestant, William participated in several wars against the powerful Catholic king of France, Louis XIV, in coalition with Protestant and Catholic powers in Europe.
- Explain William's stake in the War of the Spanish Succession and the goals of the Grand Alliance.
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- In December, William's forces met with the King's Commissioners to negotiate.
- In order to avoid James' return to throne and facing opposition in Parliament, William let it be known that he was happy for Mary to be queen in name and preference in the succession given to Princess Anne's (Mary's sister) children over any of William's.
- Anne declared that she would temporarily waive her right to the crown should Mary die before William and Mary refused to be made queen without William as king.
- The decision was made in light of a great fear that the situation might deteriorate into a civil war.
- Although their succession to the English throne was relatively peaceful, much blood would be shed before William's authority was accepted in Ireland and Scotland.
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- William's claim to the English throne derived from his familial relationship with the childless Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor, who may have encouraged William's hopes for the throne.
- Harold was crowned king shortly after Edward's death, but faced invasions by William, his own brother Tostig and the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada (Harold III of Norway).
- After landing, William's forces built a wooden castle at Hastings, from which they raided the surrounding area.
- Harold's army confronted William's invaders on 14 October at the Battle of Hastings.
- Some of William's Breton troops panicked and fled, and some of the English troops appear to have pursued the fleeing Bretons.
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- In the second half of the 17th century, Frederick William, the "Great Elector," developed Brandenburg-Prussia into a major power.
- In return for aiding Emperor Leopold I during the War of the Spanish Succession, Frederick William's son, Frederick III, was allowed to elevate Prussia to the status of a kingdom.
- In 1701, Frederick crowned himself Frederick I, King in Prussia.
- King Frederick William I of Prussia, the "Soldier-King," modernized the Prussian Army, while his son Frederick the Great achieved glory and infamy with the Silesian Wars and Partitions of Poland.
- It was replaced with the Province of Brandenburg in 1815 following the Napoleonic Wars.
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- Although William's main rivals were gone after the Battle of Hastings, he still faced rebellions over the following years and was not secure on his throne until after 1072.
- After further military efforts William was crowned king on Christmas Day 1066, in London.
- Several unsuccessful rebellions followed, but by 1075 William's hold on England was mostly secure, allowing him to spend the majority of the rest of his reign on the continent.
- Other effects of the conquest included the court and government, the introduction of Norman French as the language of the elites, and changes in the composition of the upper classes, as William reclaimed territory to be held directly from the king and settled new Norman nobility on the land.
- William's lands were divided after his death: Normandy went to his eldest son, Robert, and his second surviving son, William, received England.