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Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of

Signed 18 October 1748, ending the War of the Austrian Succession. It involved mutual restitution of territories lost to Britain and France in America and India, and a guarantee of Austria's rights to Habsburg lands, except Silesia, which Prussia retained.

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