French and Indian War, News of Peace Treaty Good news of the preliminary articles of peace between England, France and Spain, sign'd the 3d of November, 1762. and also of a compleat victory gain'd over the Austrians and imperialists, by Prince Henry of Prussia, &c. [Portsmouth, n.h.?: no printer, 1763] Folio broadside (405 x 263 mm). Three lines of heading, text in three columns; some marginal browning and wear, reinforcement to folds on verso, some contemporary manuscript figures on verso, stamps of the New Jersey Historical Society. Matted, framed, and double-glazed. A very rare broadside announcing the end of the Seven Years' War, reprinting reports taken from the 9 November 1762 London Gazette, a copy of which reached Portsmouth in mid-January 1763. While the preliminary articles touch on the entirety of this first global war, Articles XIV and XV deal specifically with the North American settlement, stating "The whole of Canada to be ceded to England; and the most valuable Part of what the French used to call Louisiana; the River Mississippi being declared the Boundary between the Colonies of the two Nations on the Continent of North America; the English to have the Navigation of the Mississippi down to the Sea."
French and Indian War, News of Peace Treaty Good news of the preliminary articles of peace between England, France and Spain, sign'd the 3d of November, 1762. and also of a compleat victory gain'd over the Austrians and imperialists, by Prince Henry of Prussia, &c. [Portsmouth, n.h.?: no printer, 1763] Folio broadside (405 x 263 mm). Three lines of heading, text in three columns; some marginal browning and wear, reinforcement to folds on verso, some contemporary manuscript figures on verso, stamps of the New Jersey Historical Society. Matted, framed, and double-glazed. A very rare broadside announcing the end of the Seven Years' War, reprinting reports taken from the 9 November 1762 London Gazette, a copy of which reached Portsmouth in mid-January 1763. While the preliminary articles touch on the entirety of this first global war, Articles XIV and XV deal specifically with the North American settlement, stating "The whole of Canada to be ceded to England; and the most valuable Part of what the French used to call Louisiana; the River Mississippi being declared the Boundary between the Colonies of the two Nations on the Continent of North America; the English to have the Navigation of the Mississippi down to the Sea."
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