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In the case of King George's War, the Anglo-Spanish phase actually amounted to a separate struggle that the British called the War of Jenkins's Ear, in reference to an English sea captain who had his ear lopped off by Spanish authorities. That conflict started in 1739, and was all but over by the time the British commenced fighting with the French up north in 1744.

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