Editing Queen Anne's War (section)

===Newfoundland===
[[File:Daniel d'Auger de Subercase.jpg|thumb|upright|left|In 1705, [[Daniel d'Auger de Subercase]], the [[List of lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador#Governors of Plaisance, 1655–1713|Governor of Plaisance]], led a French and Mi'kmaq expedition against English settlements in Newfoundland.]]
Newfoundland's coast was dotted with small French and English communities, with some fishing stations occupied seasonally by fishermen from Europe.<ref>Prowse, pp. 277–280</ref> Both sides had fortified their principal towns, the French at [[Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador|Plaisance]] on the western side of the [[Avalon Peninsula]], the English at [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]] and in [[Conception Bay]] (see [[Carbonear Island]]).<ref>Prowse, pp. 223, 276</ref> During [[King William's War]], d'Iberville had [[Avalon Peninsula Campaign|destroyed most of the English communities]] in 1696–97,<ref>Prowse, p. 229</ref> and the island again became a battleground in 1702. In August of that year, an English fleet under the command of Commodore [[John Leake]] [[Newfoundland expedition (1702)|descended on the outlying French communities]] but made no attempts on Plaisance.<ref name=P235>Prowse, p. 235</ref> During the winter of 1705, Plaisance's French governor [[Daniel d'Auger de Subercase]] retaliated, leading a combined French and [[Mi'kmaq]] expedition that destroyed several English settlements and [[Siege of St. John's|unsuccessfully besieged Fort William at St. John's]]. The French and their Indigenous allies continued to harass the English throughout the summer and did damages to the English establishments claimed at £188,000.<ref>Prowse, pp. 242–246</ref> The English sent a fleet in 1706 that destroyed French fishing outposts on the island's northern coasts.<ref>Prowse, pp. 246–248</ref> In December 1708, a combined force of French, Canadian, and Mi'kmaq volunteers [[Battle of St. John's|captured St. John's]] and destroyed the fortifications. They lacked the resources to hold the prize, however, so they abandoned it, and St. John's was reoccupied and refortified by the English in 1709. (The same French expedition also tried to take [[Ferryland]], but it successfully resisted.)<ref>Prowse, p. 249</ref>

English fleet commanders contemplated attacks on Plaisance in 1703 and 1711 but did not make them, the latter by Admiral Walker in the aftermath of the disaster at the mouth of the St. Lawrence.<ref>Prowse, pp. 235–236</ref>