The French and Indian War (1754–63) was a conflict between France and Great Britain that resulted in Britain taking over all French lands in North America. It was also the last war fought between European powers in North America before the American Revolution (1775–83; a conflict in which the American colonies gained independence from Great Britain). During the French and Indian War, American colonists fought with the British army against the French. The French and Indian War officially ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. For Britain, victory meant control of all French lands in Canada and territories east of the Mississippi River except for the city of New Orleans. New Orleans was given to Spain, along with French holdings west of the Mississippi; Spain had become an ally of France in 1762. In exchange for Havana, Cuba, Spain turned over Florida to Britain. France had once controlled a vast region of North America, now it retained only two small islands off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, and two Caribbean islands, Martinique and Guadeloupe.
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