Seven Years’ War - Treaties, Peace, Europe

Seven Years’ War

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The diplomatic revolution and the prelude to the French and Indian War
- The interests of the European powers
- Preliminary negotiations and hostilities in the colonies
- Defensive alliances
The course of the Seven Years’ War
- 1756
- 1757
- 1758
- 1759
- 1760
- 1761
- 1762
The treaties of peace

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British and French dominions in North America, 1755

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Just as there had been, in theory, two wars—the Franco-British and the Austro-Prussian—so too there were two final treaties of peace. The definitive Treaty of Paris was concluded on February 10, 1763, between Great Britain, Hanover, France, and Spain, with Portugal expressly understood to be included. By that treaty France renounced to Great Britain all of mainland North America east of the Mississippi River (excluding New Orleans and environs); the West Indian islands of Grenada, Saint Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago; and all French conquests made since 1749 in India or in the East Indies. Great Britain restored to France the ...(100 of 6807 words)

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