[The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. Mahan]@TWC D-Link bookThe Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 CHAPTER VIII 73/87
At the same time Spain, as an equivalent for Havana, which England restored, yielded Florida, under which name were comprised all her continental possessions east of the Mississippi.
Thus England obtained a colonial empire embracing Canada, from Hudson's Bay, and all of the present United States east of the Mississippi.
The possibilities of this vast region were then only partially foreseen, and as yet there was no foreshadowing of the revolt of the thirteen colonies. In the West Indies, England gave back to France the important islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
The four so-called neutral islands of the Lesser Antilles were divided between the two powers; Sta.
Lucia going to France, St.Vincent, Tobago, and Dominica to England, which also retained Grenada. Minorca was given back to England; and as the restoration of the island to Spain had been one of the conditions of the alliance with the latter, France, unable to fulfil her stipulation, ceded to Spain Louisiana west of the Mississippi. In India, France recovered the possessions she had held before Dupleix began his schemes of aggrandizement; but she gave up the right of erecting fortifications or keeping troops in Bengal, and so left the station at Chandernagore defenceless.
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