A map showing the British possessions in North America in 1775, before the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War. The map shows the boundaries of the British Colonies along the Atlantic, the Proclamation Line of 1763 after the French and Indian Wars, the extent of Quebec to the Ohio River, the territories reserved for the Indians west of the Allegheny Mountains and east of the Mississippi River, the territory claimed by the Six Nations (Iroquois), Spanish Louisiana, East and West Florida, and the territory claimed by the Hudson Bay Company.