HIS103Y1 Midterm: The Peace of Utrecht Notes
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The treaty of utrecht, which was signed between france britain, dutch, portugal and the german states of prussia and savoy. France was forced to cede nfl, hudson bay and islands in the caribean and louis was forced to recognize queen ann as the leader of britain. Austria resolved to ight on and coninue atempts to defeat france unil the treaies of: Rastat and baden march and september of 1714. Austria gained spanish netherlands and french holdings in italy, paricularly milan, naples and sardinia. France was granted alsace and lorraine, but he had to cede this territory in exchange for the coaliion powers recognizing philip anjou as philip of spain. Spain was forced to conclude peace on coaliion terms. Spain lost gibraltar to britain and silcily to savoy as well as handing american slave trade to britain. Spain coninues to del cine as it has for a century. Austria gained a lot of power and prussia was free to act.
