<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Treaty of Paris (1763) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Anglo - French hostilities were ended in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris, which involved a complex series of land exchanges, the most important being France's cession to Spain of Louisiana, and to Great Britain the rest of New France except for the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon . Faced with the choice of regaining either New France or its Caribbean island colonies of Guadeloupe and Martinique, France chose the latter to retain these lucrative sources of sugar, writing off New France as an unproductive, costly territory . France also returned Menorca to the British . Spain lost control of Florida to Great Britain, but it received from the French the Île d'Orléans and all of the former French holdings west of the Mississippi River . The exchanges suited the British as well, as their own Caribbean islands already supplied ample sugar, and, with the acquisition of New France and Florida, they now controlled all of North America east of the Mississippi . </P> <P> In India, the British retained the Northern Circars, but returned all the French trading ports . The treaty, however, required that the fortifications of these settlements be destroyed and never rebuilt, while only minimal garrisons could be maintained there, thus rendering them worthless as military bases . Combined with the loss of France's ally in Bengal and the defection of Hyderabad to the British as a result of the war, this effectively brought French power in India to an end, making way for British hegemony and eventual control of the subcontinent . France's navy was crippled by the war . Only after an ambitious rebuilding program in combination with Spain was France again able to challenge Britain's command of the sea . </P> <P> Bute's settlement with France was mild compared with what Pitt's would have been . He had hoped for a lasting peace with France, and he was afraid that if he took too much, the whole of Europe would unite in envious hostility against Great Britain . Choiseul, however, had no intention of making a permanent peace, and, when France went to war with Great Britain during the American Revolution, the British found no support among the European powers . France's defeat caused the French to embark upon major military reforms, with particular attention being paid to the artillery . The origins of the famed French artillery that played a prominent role in the wars of the French Revolutionary wars and beyond can to be traced to military reforms that started in 1763 . </P>

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