Serious negotiations begin between Britain, France and…

December 1782 CE

Serious negotiations begin between Britain, France and Spain (for which Britain's chief negotiator is Alleyne Fitzherbert, and Spain's the Count of Aranda) over the next few weeks.

Although a French naval expedition had destroyed British trading posts in Hudson Bay during the summer, no territory had actually been captured.

From time to time, news arrives from India of continuing stalemate, both in the land wars (which involve the French only as supporters to local rulers) and in naval battles; the British still appear to hold all the French territory there that they had captured in 1778–79, while the French hold no British territory.

In the West Indies, on the other hand, the French still hold all the territory they had captured, while the British hold only one French island, St. Lucia.

The Spanish hold West Florida, the Bahamas and Menorca, and they are still maintaining an increasingly futile siege of Gibraltar.

An attempt to exchange Puerto Rico for Gibraltar collapses, probably because it would have brought too much competition for Jamaican products into the protected British market.

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Paris Ile-de-France France View →

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Benjamin Franklin View → Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes View → Henry Laurens View → John Adams View → John Jay View → Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea y Jiménez de Urrea, 10th Count of Aranda View → William Petty, Earl of Shelburne View →

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Puerto Rico (Spanish Colony) View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Ohio Country View → Saint Lucia (French colony) View → Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of View → Newfoundland (British Colony) View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → The Bahamas, British Crown Colony of View → India, East India Company rule in View → India, French View → West Florida View → Loyalists (American Revolution) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA) View →

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American Revolution View → American Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence View → Anglo-French War (1778–1783) View → Anglo-Spanish War View → Gibraltar, Great Siege of View → Anglo-Dutch War, Fourth View →

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