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Jacques Cartier named the island Ile St-Jean when he spotted it in the 16th century, but the French didn’t colonize it until after their retrenchment following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
Building of the original fortress began in 1719, six years after the Treaty of Utrecht had left the French only Cape Breton Island.
That led in 1713 to the treaty of Utrecht under which Spain ceded its rights to Gibraltar to the British.
Although the British made no military conquests here during the War of Spanish Succession (1700–1713), their negotiators forced the French in the ensuing Treaty of Utrecht to give up all of Acadia (Nova Scotia) except Cape Breton.
Philip finally gained the Spanish throne under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.