<Tr> <Td> Spanish Florida </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Today part of </Td> <Td> Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Dominica Grenada Guyana Honduras Jamaica Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos United States </Td> </Tr> <P> English America (later British America) refers to the English territories in North America (including Bermuda), Central America, the Caribbean, and Guyana from 1607 to 1783 . Formally, the British colonies in North America were known as British America and the British West Indies until 1776, when the Thirteen Colonies located along the Atlantic seaboard declared their independence and formed the United States of America . After that, the term British North America was used to describe the remainder of Britain's continental North American possessions . That term was first used informally in 1783, but it was uncommon before the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), called the Durham Report . </P> <P> British America gained large amounts of new territory following the Treaty of Paris (1763) which ended British involvement in the Seven Years' War . At the start of the American War of Independence in 1775, the British Empire included twenty colonies north and east of New Spain (present - day areas of Mexico and the Western United States). East and West Florida were ceded to Spain in the Treaty of Paris (1783) which ended the American Revolution, and then ceded by Spain to the United States in 1819 . The remaining continental colonies of British North America formed the Dominion of Canada by uniting between 1867 and 1873 . The Dominion of Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949 . </P>

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