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A School History of the United States

CHAPTER VIII
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It is enough for us to know that France divided her possessions on this continent between Great Britain and Spain.

To Great Britain she gave Canada and Cape Breton, and all the islands save two in the Gulf of St.Lawrence.Entering what is now the United States, she drew a line down the middle of the Mississippi River from its source to a point just north of New Orleans.

To Great Britain she surrendered all her territory east of this line.

To Spain she gave all her possessions to the west of this line, together with the city of New Orleans.

But Great Britain, during the war, had taken Havana from Spain.


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