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| | ninemsn Encarta - Austrian Succession, War of the |
 | | The upshot was the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, signed on October 18, 1748, by Britain and France, who then proceeded to impose their terms on their resentful junior partners, Austria and Spain. |
 | | True, Austriaâs recovery alarmed Frederick II sufficiently to bring him to re-enter the war against her in 1744, but when the British again forced Maria Theresa to confirm him in possession of Silesia, by the Treaty of Dresden (December 25, 1745), the war in Central Europe could have come to an end. |
 | | In so far as Britain and France simply restored to each other their overseas conquests, leaving frontiers in North America as ill defined as before, the treaty marked a return to the status quo of 1740 and the war had indeed changed nothing. |
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