An anti-French/Spanish alliance was formed Sept. 7, 1701 by England, the Dutch Republic, and the emperor Leopold to start the War of the Spanish Succession, (1701-14). After William III of England died in 1702, Queen Anne ascended & kept doing it with John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, in the lead. They duly changed the war's name to Queen Anne's War (especially in the Colonies.)

          A gay fusilier marched through the streets of Rochester
          Bound for the wars in the Low Countries.
          He sang as he marched through those crowded streets of Rochester
          Who'll be a soldier with Marlborough and me?
  
                  "The Gay Fusilier" or "The Bold Fusilier" or "Marching Through Rochester"
                  – sung to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda", which was written a couple of hundred
                  years later. (The rest of "Fusilier" is by Peter Coe) [thanx Coe, "E.B.,"
                  Dennison, Suffet, McCombs, Nielson & me]

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