Spanish Texas in the Age of Revolutions 1779–1821

• Main Author: Campbell, Randolph
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University PressNew York, NY 2003
• Subjects: Hudson Bay
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195138429.003.0004; https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52576482/isbn-9780195138429-book-part-4.pdf

Abstract The Treaty of Paris in 1763, which officially ended the Great War for Empire, required dramatic revisions in maps showing the possessions of European nations in North America. (See map: North America before and after the Treaty of Paris, 1763.) France lost virtually all its colonies, ceding Louisiana to Spain and giving Canada and all French claims east of the Mississippi to England. Spain gave Florida to England but at least acquired Louisiana. As befitted the victor, England took control of a vast area stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi. The thirteen English colonies along the seaboard from Georgia to New England, so insecure before the war, now appeared to have a great future as part of the world’s most powerful empire.