id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8758 Treaty of Paris (1783) - Wikipedia .html text/html 5773 802 63 The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America and Canada on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States of America, on lines "exceedingly generous" to the latter.[2] Details included fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war. Britain acknowledges the United States (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia[16]) to be free, sovereign, and independent states, and that the British Crown and all heirs and successors relinquish claims to the Government, property, and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof, ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8758.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8758.txt