Americans, backed by seasoned British troops, won the French and Indian Warin 1762 when both Spain and France decided that they could no longer continue the fight. Although hostilities had ended in November a peace treaty was finally negotiated on February 10,1763. The treaty reduced Georgia's western boundary from the Pacific Ocean to the Mississippi River. Georgia was elated about a provision of the Treaty that ceded Spanish Florida to England. Finally, the Spanish problem had been solved.
The high cost of fighting in America and abroad (where the conflict is known asThe Seven Years War) changed the way both Parliament and King George III viewed the colonies. The English expected the burgeoning colonies to pay their own way. Colonists expected the English Army to disband (normal at the time), but the king had other ideas. He intended to maintain, at the colonists expense, the largest standing peacetime army in history.
