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King George's War (1744–1748) is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748). It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars .
The siege of Louisbourg took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.
During King George's War Dagworthy recruited a company of soldiers and was given command over them. During the French and Indian War he was a captain in command at Fort Cumberland . When George Washington of the Virginia militia, returned with the survivors of the Braddock Expedition Dagworthy became involved in a lengthy dispute with ...
Vigilant in 1745, a captured French third rate, as taken off prior to fitting as a 58-gun two-decker fourth rate. The Capture of Vigilant was an incident in May 1745 of the naval warfare of King George's War.
The Northeast Coast campaign (1745) occurred during King George's War from 19 July until 5 September 1745. [7] Three weeks after the British Siege of Louisbourg (1745), the Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia retaliated by attacking New England settlements along the coast of present-day Maine below the Kennebec River, the former border of Acadia.
The Battle at Port-la-Joye (also known as the Port-la-Joye Massacre [3]) was a battle in King George's War that took place with British against French troops and Mi'kmaq militia on the banks of present-day Hillsborough River, Prince Edward Island in the summer of 1746.
In 1746, the fort was the site of the Siege of Fort Massachusetts, a battle in King George's War between the 21 militiamen garrisoning the fort and almost a thousand French soldiers and their Indian allies that resulted in the burning of the fort and the capture of the garrison and their families. The twenty-nine captives were taken to Quebec ...
Acadia in the year 1743, with Tatamagouche at the north coast of the Acadian peninsula Cannon from Captain Fones' ship Tartar, Newport Historical Society. The action of 15 June 1745 (also known as the Battle of Famme Goose Bay [9]) was a naval encounter between three New England vessels and a French and native relief convoy en route to relieve the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) during King George ...