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Paris, Peace of (1783)

Years: 1783 - 1783

The Peace of Paris (1783) is the set of treaties that ends the American Revolutionary War.

On September 3, 1783, representatives of King George III of Great Britain signe a treaty in Paris with representatives of the United States of America—commonly known as the Treaty of Paris (1783)—and two treaties at Versailles with representatives of King Louis XVI of France and King Charles III of Spain—commonly known as the Treaties of Versailles (1783).

The previous day, a preliminary treaty had been signed with representatives of the States General of the Dutch Republic, but the final treaty that ends the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War is not signed until 20 May 1784; for convenience, however, it is included in the summaries below.The British lose their Thirteen Colonies and the defeat marks the end of the First British Empire.

The United States gains more than it expects, thanks to the award of western territory.

The other Allies have mixed-to-poor results.

France wins a propaganda victory over Britain after its defeat in the Seven Years War, however its material gains are minimal and its financial losses huge.

It is already in financial trouble and its borrowing to pay for the war has used up all its credit and created the financial disasters that mark the 1780s.

Historians link those disasters to the coming of the French Revolution.

The Dutch do not gain anything of significant value at the end of the war.

The Spanish have a mixed result; they do not achieve their primary war goal of recovering Gibraltar, but they do gain some territory.

However in the long run, as the case of Florida shows, the new territory is of little or no value.

"History should be taught as the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not with undue emphasis on one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness."

—Bertrand Russell, On Education (1926)