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Introduction; Causes of the War; First Continental Congress; Lexington and Concord; Second Continental Congress and the Siege of Boston; The British Invasion of the North; The Campaign of 1777-1778; The Changing Character of the War; The British Campaign in the South; Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Paris

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Yorktown marked the end of serious hostilities in North America, although peace negotiations dragged on until the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783. Great Britain recognized the independence of the former colonies as the United States of America and acknowledged its boundaries as extending west to the Mississippi, north to Canada (with fishing rights in Newfoundland), and south to the Floridas.

Washington, to whose decisiveness and determination the victory was due, took leave of his officers in New York on December 4, 1783, surrendered his commission to Congress at Annapolis on December 23, and, in words that were somewhat less than prophetic, took leave “of all the employments of public life”.