📅 On This Day in Military History
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The Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War globally. France ceded all of Canada and all territory east of the Mississippi River to Britain. France gave Louisiana (the vast territory west of the Mississippi) to Spain. Britain returned Cuba and the Philippines to Spain, and Martinique and Guadeloupe to France. In one treaty, the entire balance of power in North America was redrawn.
The most consequential diplomatic settlement in North American history before the Constitution. Britain now controlled virtually all of eastern North America — but the massive debt from the war led directly to the taxes that caused the American Revolution. France's loss of Canada eliminated the threat that had made the colonies dependent on British military protection.
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