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💡 On 3 November 1762, King Louis XV of France secretly ceded Louisiana, including New Orleans and the island on which the city stood, to King Charles III of Spain under the Treaty of Fontainebleau. The agreement followed France's loss of Canada in the Seven Years' War, confirmed earlier that September by the Battle of Signal Hill, which secured British control there. Charles ratified the treaty on 13 November 1762, and Louis followed ten days later.