Treaty Of Paris 1783 Quotes

THE WAR FOR AMERICAN independence between the United States and Great Britain lasted eight years, formally ending in the Treaty of Paris, which was signed in 1783.

In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence... Treaty of Paris, September 3, 1783

At the peace treaty ending the war, signed in Paris in 1783, the American diplomats John Adams and John Jay had insisted that all the lands controlled by the British west of the Allegheny Mountains and northwest of the Ohio River east of the Mississippi, be ceded to the new United States.