Peace of Paris, 1763 .-- By this great treaty, or set of treaties, the French withdrew from the continent of North America.

To Spain, who had lost Florida, the French gave the island of New Orleans and all of Louisiana west of the Mississippi.

To Great Britain the French gave up all the rest of their American possessions except two small islands in the Gulf of St.Lawrence.Spain, on her part, gave up Florida to the British.

There were now practically only two powers in America,--the British in the eastern part of the continent, and the Spaniards west of the Mississippi.

The Spaniards also owned the island of New Orleans and controlled both sides of the river for more than a hundred miles from its mouth.