The American Revolution: Treaty of Paris (1783)

A general overview of the Treaty of Paris with links to related topics.

"The Treaty of Paris of 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War. American statesmen Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay negotiated the peace treaty with representatives of King George III of Great Britain."

"When news of Lord Cornwallis’s surrender reached Great Britain, Prime Minister Lord Frederick North, the 2nd Earl of Guilford seized “as he would have taken a ball in his breast” and exclaimed “Oh, God! It is all over!”'

"Following the British defeat at the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781, leaders in Parliament decided that offensive campaigns in North America should cease in favor of a different, more limited approach"

"Drawing the line: the 1783 Treaty of Paris ended the war between Britain and the U.S. But it didn't end boundary disputes. For the next sixty years, the British and the Americans clashed over an imaginary line separating colony from country. Then Lord Ashburton met Daniel Webster, and most of what would become the world's longest undefended border fell into place "

"'The aristocrat who at the dictates of his conscience had opposed the King's colonial policies was now compelled . . . to lead the King's troops in a fight to [...]" Contains a chapter about the Treaty of Paris

"The Treaty of Paris of 1783 seemed an affront to indigenous people throughout North America not only because of its utter lack of regard for the native peoples and their territorial rights, but it also became the impetus for the most comprehensive and well-articulated assertion of Indian sovereignty to date and for decades to come. McGillivray's dream of a "Grand Indian Confederacy of the Northern & Southern Nations, in order to Keep the Americans from Settling themselves on the Western Side of the Ohio River" never came to fruition; nevertheless, his initiatives on behalf of the Creek Nation indicated a willingness to think and to act strategically, if non-traditionally, to preserve Creek sovereignty."

A detailed analysis of the process of the creation of the Treaty of Paris (1763).

"The article presents the text of the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783, which put an end to the American Revolution against Great Britain."

Full text of the Paris Peace Treaty

A map of the U.S. in 1783.

"This treaty, sent to Congress by the American negotiators John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay, formally ended the Revolutionary War." Read the original text

"The Revolutionary War officially ended on September 3, 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The treaty established the U.S. boundaries shown in the map above."