Video: '3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War'

(Wednesday, September 3, 1783, 9:00 a.m. local time; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the Atlantic Revolutions, American Revolution) — Representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris today at the Hotel d’York at present-day 56 Rue Jacob in Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other and recognizing the Thirteen Colonies, which had been part of colonial British America, as an independent and sovereign nation.

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The treaty set the boundaries between British North America, later called Canada and the United States, on lines the British labeled as “exceedingly generous.”

Details included fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war.

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This treaty and the separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that supported the American cause, including France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic, are known collectively as the Peace of Paris.

Only Article 1 of the treaty, which acknowledges the United States’ existence as free, sovereign, and independent states, remains in force.