ABSTRACT
America was the choice made in 1762-3. The Bute ministry negotiated the Peace of Paris, its gains including Canada, from France, and Florida, from Spain. It also abandoned the Prussian alliance, making little effort to keep relations cordial with Frederick the Great.1 George III was closely identified with a specific “Patriotic” agenda, the rejection of his grandfather’s tradition of intervention in German affairs for Hanoverian ends and, more generally, a wish to limit Britain’s commitments to European allies.
