King George's War

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King George's War is the name given to the military 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 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. The war broke out in 1739 between the Spanish and British and was confined to the Caribbean and Georgia. This escalated into King George’s War when the French joined the side of Spain. In the course of the war, British colonial forces captured the French stronghold of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, but this gain was returned to France under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

King George's War did nothing to stop the dispute between Great Britain and France. Austria shifted its allegiance from Great Britain to France, as Great Britain became allied with Prussia and Russian Empire which continued the conflict. This would lead to the Seven Years' War in Europe (the French and Indian War in North America), the fourth of the French and Indian Wars.

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