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At the time, Cutter notes, English and French colonists and their Native American allies were embroiled in King William’s War, one of a number of conflicts between the rival settlers.

Before long, England and France were involved in a new phase of this dispute, which now seems part of a centuries-long conflict between the two countries, but at the time was variously called the Nine-Years’ War or King William’s War.

In 2003, Mary Beth Norton published “In the Devil’s Snare,” a majoring reinterpretation of the Salem trials arguing “these grim events must be understood in relation to King William’s War.”

I was bound thither to see the garrison houses that had withstood the onset of the Indians in King William's war.

In America the struggle is known as King William's War; in Europe it is usually referred to as the War of the Palatinate.