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| | # [[History of Russia|Russia]] took the greater part of [[History of Poland|Poland]], later known as "Congress Poland," and obtained Finland from Sweden and Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire. | | # [[History of Russia|Russia]] took the greater part of [[History of Poland|Poland]], later known as "Congress Poland," and obtained Finland from Sweden and Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire. |
| | # Sweden was compensated with Norway, which was taken from Denmark to punish the latter for persistent loyalty to Napoleon. | | # Sweden was compensated with Norway, which was taken from Denmark to punish the latter for persistent loyalty to Napoleon. |
| − | # Britain kept nearly all its colonial conquests, securing Cape Colony in southern Africa, Ceylon, and part of Guiana from Holland, Helgoland from Denmark, part of Honduras, the Ionian Islands, and the islands of Malta, Mauritius, St. Lucia, Tobago, and Trinidad. | + | # Britain kept nearly all its colonial conquests, securing permanent control from the Netherlands of Cape Colony in southern Africa, Ceylon, and part of Guiana; it also obtained Helgoland, part of Honduras, the Ionian Islands, and the islands of Malta, Mauritius, St. Lucia, Tobago, and Trinidad.<ref>At the same time Britain retained control of Canada but failed to establish an Indian buffer state in the Ohio-Indiana-Michigan area when it failed to win the [{War of 1812]] with the United States.</ref> |
| | # France, now under Bourbon King Louis XVIII, was dealt with in the second Treaty of Paris, in November 1815. All the Napoleonic imperial conquests were removed, and France returned to its 1790 frontiers. France was required to pay an indemnity of 700,000,000 francs and to support an occupation army for five years. | | # France, now under Bourbon King Louis XVIII, was dealt with in the second Treaty of Paris, in November 1815. All the Napoleonic imperial conquests were removed, and France returned to its 1790 frontiers. France was required to pay an indemnity of 700,000,000 francs and to support an occupation army for five years. |
| | # The Bourbon kings were restored in Spain and in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, while the Kingdom of Sardinia was permitted to incorporate the former Republic of Genoa. | | # The Bourbon kings were restored in Spain and in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, while the Kingdom of Sardinia was permitted to incorporate the former Republic of Genoa. |