Queen Anne’s War was the second of four great wars for empire fought between France and  England, supported by their Indian allies. This struggle broke out when the French raided English settlements on the New England frontier. Fighting spread to the southern frontier, where English colonists in the Carolinas attacked Spanish territory in Florida. An English invasion of Quebec in 1710 failed, but in the Treaty of Utrecht ending the conflict, France ceded Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and the French territory around Hudson Bay to England,...