The six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Fort Stanwix Treaty with British diplomats, formalizing the borders set forth by the Proclamation of 1763. The British tried to quell the violence on the frontier following their acquisition of French lands in the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
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