The war saw attacks by France and its native allies on British frontier settlements. The British failed to seize Quebec, and the French commander there attacked the British-held coast. The Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 was supposed to end the war, but peace did not last long, and shortly the colonies were embroiled in the next of the French and Indian Wars, Queen Anne's War (1702-1713).
The first of the French and Indian Wars, KingWilliam'sWar (1689–1697), was the North American theater of the War of the Grand Alliance (1688–1697) fought principally in Europe between the armies of France under Louis XIV and those of a coalition of European powers including England.
KingWilliam'sWar started when William III of England joined the League of Augsburg against France.
The war saw attacks by France and its Indian allies on English frontier settlements, most notably the Schenectady Massacre of 1690.
The earliest wars were spin-offs of European conflicts, (wars fought over the question of balance of power in Europe) the later ones, reflecting the increasing importance of the colonies to the trade of the western world, were begun in the colonies and spread to Europe.
By the French and Indian War, the struggle was one for supremacy of the transapplachian west itself.
War contributed dramatically to the spread and deepening of capitalist society.
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