In which city was the 1783 Treaty of Paris signed?

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The 1783 Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris.

Representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed the treaty on September 3, 1783. It recognized the United States as free, sovereign, and independent and established boundaries for the new nation. The agreement formally ended the American Revolutionary War between those two countries.

The American negotiators were Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens, although Laurens signed no final document. The British negotiator was David Hartley. The treaty also addressed fishing rights, debts, prisoners of war, and recommendations concerning property confiscated from Loyalists.

The treaty is sometimes confused with the broader Peace of Paris. That phrase can describe several related agreements involving Britain, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic. The separate American-British agreement is specifically known as the Treaty of Paris of 1783.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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