Utrecht Treaty 1713

The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) is the series of peace treaties that ended the War of the Spanish Succession, signed at Utrecht in the Dutch Republic. Britain gained Gibraltar and Minorca, plus Newfoundland, Acadia, and Hudson Bay territory from France, securing Atlantic naval and trade dominance. The settlement also granted Britain the Asiento, the contract to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America for 30 years, awarded to the South Sea Company. Utrecht reshaped European maritime trade and the balance of sea power.