PARIS, TREATY OF


Meaning of PARIS, TREATY OF in English

(1763) Treaty concluding the Seven Years' War (including the French and Indian War ).

It was signed by Britain and Hanover on one side and France and Spain on the other. France renounced to Britain the mainland of North America east of the Mississippi, its conquests in India since 1749, and four West Indian islands. Britain restored to France four other West Indian islands and the West African colony of Gorée (Senegal). In return for recovering Havana and Manila, Spain ceded Florida to Britain and received Louisiana from the French.

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