Treaty of Paris (1783)

The Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris on 3 September 1783 by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and the United States, formally ending the American Revolutionary War. Its terms recognized the Thirteen Colonies as free, sovereign and independent states, drew the new nation's boundaries, and set out provisions on fishing rights, war debts, the treatment of Loyalists and the return of confiscated property. It was one of several agreements collectively known as the Peace of Paris of 1783, which also settled the war between Great Britain and Great Britain's other opponents, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic. The treaty marked Great Britain's formal acknowledgment of American independence and closed the military conflict that had begun with the fighting at Lexington and Concord in 1775.