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123 1763.

   "The reduction of Canada, and the expulsion of the French from the Ohio, put an end to important military operations in America.  The great purpose of the war, which was to expel or cripple the power of the French, on the western frontiers, was happily accomplished.  In Europe the war continued to rage, and in the West Indies, the British, aided by colonial troops, took Havanah from the Spaniards in 1762, an expedition in which multitudes of men fell victim to the bilious plague.  But on the 10th of February 1763, a definitive treaty of peace was signed at Paris, by which the French king ceded Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Canada, to the British King, and the middle of the Mississippi, from its source, to the river Iberville, and the middle of that river to the sea, was made the boundary between the British &  French dominions in America.  Spain ceded to Great Britain Florida and all her possessions to the east of the Mississippi.  Such was the state of the European possessions in America, at the commencement of the revolution."  Websters U.S. 196
  "In terminating the war of 1756, England obtained Florida from Spain, & all that part of Louisiana lying eastward of the Mississippi, except New Orleans, from France; and divided the whole territory into two provinces,