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TREATIES OF UTRECHT
APRIL 1713 - SEPTEMBER 1714
The Treaties of Utrecht are also called
the Peace of Utrecht.
The city of Utrecht is located in
today's Netherlands.
Several settlements were signed at
Utrecht in order to conclude the
War of the Spanish Succession.
The Treaty of Utrecht also concluded
the Queen Anne's War, which is also called the Second French and Indian War,
and was the North American extension of the War of the Spanish
Succession.
Philip is left in possession of the throne of Spain. But Naples,
Milan, the Spanish territories on the Tuscan coast, the Spanish
Netherlands, and some parts of the French Netherlands, are given to
Austria.
France cedes Newfoundland and the
Hudson Bay region to Britain, i.e. Hudson's Bay and Straits, the
Island of St. Christopher, and Nova Scotia.
Spain cedes to England Gibraltar and
Minorca, which the English had taken during the war.
The King of Prussia and the Duke of
Savoy both obtain considerable additions of territory to their
dominions.
Here are the maps
EUROPE 1713
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1713-1763 North America
1713-1763
Treaties
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