UTRECHT, TREATY OF
\jˈuːtɹɛçt], \jˈuːtɹɛçt], \j_ˈuː_t_ɹ_ɛ_ç_t]\
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Concluded between France, Great Britain, Portugal, Prussia, Savoy and Holland in 1713, ended the war of the Spanish Succession, called in America "Queen Anne's War." France ceded to Great Britain Hudson's Bay and Straits, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and the adjacent islands. Spain granted to a British company the exclusive right for thirty years of supplying Spanish America with negroes, and engaged not to transfer any land or lordship in America.
By John Franklin Jameson
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