Queen Anne's War Begins

May 15, 1702

The American theater of the Spanish Succession conflict opened with raids between French Canada and English Carolina. Abenaki warriors burned Deerfield; Carolinians sacked St. Augustine. Along a thousand miles of forested frontier, Europe's dynastic quarrel became a matter of scalps and smoke. The war would grind on for a decade and end with Britain's acquisition of Acadia, Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay.