Matching Articles"English French Conflict" (Total 12)

  • This first episode in the long contest between England and France is also known as King William's War, and as the War of the Grand Alliance.
  • France and England - later Great Britain - were at war, on and off, from 1689 to 1815.
  • An extract from Letter to Board of Trade, by Colonel J. Gibson, dated June 28, 1697.
  • Counsel for Cecil Calvert (Second Baron Baltimore), in his case concerning the Province of Avalon, dating from December 23, 1651.
  • Information about the islands St. Pierre and Miquelon from their initial discovery by Joas Alvarez Fagundes, to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
  • Deposition of Edward Davis, taken on September 23, 1695, and dealing with France, war, fortifications, and ordance.
  • Newfoundland with its adjacent waters was originally viewed as a cod fishery, an important supplement to fisheries carried on in European waters.
  • A brief history of Labrador, including the importance of the fishery, permanent settlement, and relations with Quebec and with Newfoundland.
  • A history of the Newfoundland settlement, Placentia, from difficult beginnings in 1662 to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
  • There was hardly a decade in the 17th century when Newfoundland was safe from the effects of European war, whether directly or indirectly.
  • As the only French base in Newfoundland, Plaisance was attacked by the English, but also acted as the springboard for French attacks on English Newfoundland.
  • Overview of the French attack on Ferryland, which occurred in the winter of 1696 as a part of the war between France and England.