As GB France wouldn't trade me that town that you need to get the colonies to join you so I took it and then asked for peace straight away. And I felt like having a true naval empire so I went around paying huge sums of cash for all the islands, and if anyone didn't want to give up their island I took it by force.

In the same game Sweden was attacking one of the minor nations who was my ally so I launched a huge invasion against sweden and gave all but one of their provinces to my ally.