On This Day: Treaty of Paris

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

On this day in American History the Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris.  The treaty was signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America to end the American Revolutionary War.  The date was September 3, 1783.

The treaty was signed seven years after the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and more than eight years after the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington Green, April 19, 1775.

Three years after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, delegates would meet in Annapolis to determine the fate of the new U.S. Government.  They agreed to meet again in May of 1787 to fix the Articles of Convention, but what came out of the 1787 Philadelphia Convention was a new constitution establishing a new federal government.

Despite all of the work of the new country in establishing itself, Britain was never willing to recognize the national sovereignty of the United States.  On June 18, 1812 the United States found itself at war with Britain again, with this war lasting nearly three years.  Some historians refer to The War of 1812 as being America's Second Revolution.

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