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Treaty Of Paris In 1763: The following year, on April 28, the remnants of the French Army under Due Francois Gaston de Levis attempted to retake the city from Brig. Gen. James Murray's troops near Sainte Foy. Defeated, the British retired in disorder to within the city walls. But the arrival of strong British reinforcements on May 15 forced the French to retreat toward Montreal. By the Treaty of Paris in 1763 Canada became a British colony.
American Revolution. Apart from the elder Pitt, only small men managed the affairs of Britain, both at home and abroad, in the 1760's, 1770's, and early 1780's. The Treaty of Paris, which ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, after Pitt's departure from the government, con-finned the British acquisition of India and Canada, and for a brief time the country was in a stronger international position than ever before. But that position was soon whittled away by incompetent ministers. For more than 20 years after Pitt's resignation in 1761 the controlling influence in British politics was George himself, and he liked to have mediocrities around him.
The fall of Quebec City to the British in 1759 and the surrender of Montreal in 1760 marked the end of the Seven Years' War in America. By the Treaty of Paris (1763), Quebec became a British colony, and was governed under the terms of a royal proclamation until the adoption in London of the Quebec Act in 1774. The territory of Quebec, as defined in this act, extended to the Labrador coast and included in the west and south the areas of the present states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana. The act guaranteed the maintenance of French civil law and customs and the freedom of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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