Queen Anne’s death secured the Hanoverian succession with unexpected decisiveness.

Evidence

When Queen Anne breathed her last at half-past seven on August 1 it was certain that there would be no Popery, no disputed succession, no French bayonets, no civil war. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 1389

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 1389