Great Britain and France dictated the proposed terms of the treaty, which had previously been agreed at the Congress of Breda, and other nations accepted them. These were: 1. * Austria recognised Frederick II of Prussia's conquest of Silesia, as well as renouncing parts of its Italian territories to Spain. 2. * France withdrew from the Netherlands in order to have some of its colonies returned. France regained Cape Breton Island, lost during the war, while it returned the captured city of Madras in India to Great Britain and gave up the Barrier towns to the Dutch. France withdrew from the Austrian Netherlands. 3. * Maria Theresa ceded the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla in present-day Italy to Spain. 4. * The Duchy of Modena and the Republic of Genoa, conquered by