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The agreement
The treaty document was signed at the Hotel d'York which is now 56 Rue Jacob by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay (representing the United States) and David Hartley (a member of the British Parliament representing the British Monarch, King George III). Hartley was lodging at the hotel, which was therefore chosen in preference to the nearby British Embassy 44 Rue Jacob as "neutral" ground for the signing. On September 3, Britain also signed separate agreements with France and Spain, and (provisionally) with the Netherlands. In the treaty with Spain, the territories of East and West Florida were ceded to Spain (without any clearly defined northern boundary, resulting in disputed territory resolved with the Treaty of Madrid), as was the island of Minorca, while the Bahama Islands, Grenada and Montserrat, captured by the French and Spanish, were returned to Britain. The treaty with France was mostly about exchanges of captured territory (France's only net gains were the island of Tobago, and Senegal in Africa), but also reinforced Stone sign affixed on the rue Jacob building earlier treaties, guaranteeing fishing rights off Newfoundland. Dutch possessions in the East Indies, captured in 1781, were returned by Britain to the Netherlands in exchange for trading privileges in the Dutch East Indies. The American Congress of the Confederation, which met temporarily in Annapolis, Maryland, ratified the treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784 (Ratification Day).[1] Copies were sent back to Europe for ratification by the other parties involved, the first reaching France in March. British ratification occurred on April 9, 1784, and the ratified versions were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784. It was not for some time, though, that the Americans in the countryside received the news because of the lack of speedy communication.
Consequences
Privileges which the Americans had received from Britain automatically when they had colonial status (including protection from pirates in the Mediterranean Sea in respect of which see: Barbary Wars) were withdrawn. Individual States ignored Federal recommendations, under Article 5, to restore confiscated Loyalist property, and also evaded Article 6 (e.g. by confiscating Loyalist property for "unpaid debts"). Some, notably Virginia, also defied Article 4 and maintained laws against payment of debts to British creditors. Individual British soldiers ignored the provision of Article 7 about Benjamin West's painting of the delegations at the Treaty of Paris: John Jay, John removal of slaves. The real geography of Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin. The North America turned out not to match the British delegation refused to pose, and the painting was never completed. details given in the Canadian boundary descriptions. The Treaty specified a southern boundary for the United States, but the separate Anglo-Spanish agreement did not specify a northern boundary for Florida, and the Spanish government assumed that the boundary was the same as in the 1763 agreement by which they had first given their territory in Florida to Britain. While that dispute continued, Spain used its new control of Florida to block American access to the Mississippi, in defiance of Article 8.[3] In the Great Lakes area, the British adopted a very generous interpretation of the stipulation that they should relinquish control "with all convenient speed", because they needed time to negotiate with the Native Americans, who had kept the area out of United States control, but had been completely ignored in the Treaty. Even after that was accomplished, Britain retained control as a bargaining counter in hopes of obtaining some recompense for the confiscated Loyalist property.[4] This matter was finally settled by the Jay Treaty in 1794, and America's ability to bargain on all these points was greatly strengthened by the creation of the new constitution in 1787. Only Article 1 remains in force as of 2011.[5]
Notes
[1] On this date... a day-by-day listing of holidays, birthdays, and Historic Events, and Special Days, Weeks and Months - p.366 by Sandy Whiteley,2002 (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?q=ratification. day+ treaty& btnG=Search+ Books) [2] Some online versions of the treaty omit Delaware from the list of former colonies, but the actual text lists it between Pennsylvania and Maryland. For example, see facsimile of a London newspaper announcing the treaty. (http:/ / www. earlyamerica. com/ earlyamerica/ milestones/ paris/ 1. jpg) (http:/ / www. earlyamerica. com/ earlyamerica/ milestones/ paris/ ) Delaware is also included in both the preliminary version of the treaty read in the Continental Congress on 15 April 1783 (http:/ / rs6. loc. gov/ cgi-bin/ query/ D?hlaw:1:. / temp/ ~ammem_jEZ2::) and the one ratified by the Congress on 14 January 1784 (http:/ / rs6. loc. gov/ cgi-bin/ query/ r?ammem/ hlaw:@field(DOCID+ @lit(jc02617))). [3] Jones, Howard Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations to 1913 (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=TFyLOUrdGFwC& pg=PA23& lpg=PA23& ots=R4SlGML4VE& sig=Jf3UF5-rG4gZ_fj56vnrQwQOi2g#PPA23,M1), Rowman & Littlefield (2002) ISBN 0842029168 (page 23) [4] Benn, Carl Historic Fort York, 1793-1993 (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=Zu0hgVoIj3UC& pg=PA17& lpg=PA17& ots=LCcVf9I7f7& sig=zeKc7-_kZudvZs2aZhIoFABED0w) Dundurn Press Ltd. (1993) ISBN 0920474799 (page 17) [5] United States Department of State (2007). "Bilateral Treaties and Other Agreements (U-V)" (http:/ / www. state. gov/ documents/ organization/ 83043. pdf). Treaties in Force. p. 16. . Retrieved 2008-05-28.
Further reading
Dull, Jonathan R. (1987). A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution (http://books.google.com/ books?id=W86WS9Z0ycYC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=Joseph+Matthias+Grard+de+Rayneval& source=web&ots=BZoxQVTz7Y&sig=S71H1LZrBvCingYncyydzoAAzWM&hl=en&sa=X& oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result). Yale University Press. ISBN0300038860. ch 17-20 Hoffman, Ronald; Peter J. Albert editor (1981). Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778 (http://www.amazon.com/Diplomacy-Revolution-Franco-American-Alliance-1778/dp/0813908647). University of Virginia Press. ISBN0813908647. Hoffman, Ronald; Peter J. Albert editor (1986). Peace and the Peacemakers: The Treaty of 1783 (http://www. amazon.com/Peace-Peacemakers-Perspectives-American-Revolution/dp/0813910714). University of Virginia Press. ISBN0813910714. Kaplan, Lawrence S. "The Treaty of Paris, 1783: A Historiographical Challenge," International History Review, Sept 1983, Vol. 5 Issue 3, pp 431-442 Morris, Richard B. The Peacemakers; the Great Powers and American Independence (1965), the standard scholarly history Perkins, James Breck (1911). "Negotiations for Peace" (http://books.google.com/ books?id=OFIsAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage). France in the American Revolution. Houghton Mifflin. Stockley, Andrew (2001). Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 17821783 (http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http:// www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/60.1/br_11.html). University of Exeter Press. Franklin, Benjamin (1906). The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (http://books.google.com/ books?id=NWxukp7eEcMC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=Joseph+Matthias+Grard+de+Rayneval& source=web&ots=kYmu1NofGU&sig=FonFwO5UWGt6QifedLiNyu5T3CY&hl=en&sa=X& oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA108,M1). The Macmillan company.
External links
Text of the Treaty of Paris (http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/paris.html) (without Delaware ) Treaty of Paris, 1783 (http://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/Treaty), U.S. Department of State summary Treaty of Paris, 1783; International Treaties and Related Records, 1778-1974; General Records of the United States Government, Record Group 11; National Archives. (http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc. php?flash=true&doc=6) (with Delaware) Approval of the American victory in England (http://www.parlington.co.uk/structures.lasso?process=3) Unique arch inscription commemorates "Liberty in N America Triumphant MDCCLXXXIII"
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