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King George's War
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
. It took place primarily in the British provinces of
New York
,
Massachusetts Bay
,
New Hampshire
, and
Nova Scotia
. Its most significant action was an expedition organized by Massachusetts Governor
William Shirley
that
besieged
and ultimately captured the French
fortress of Louisbourg
, on
Cape Breton Island
in Nova Scotia, in 1745. In
French
, it is known as the
Third Intercolonial War
.
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