Source: Good News Network
235 years ago today, the United States won independence from Britain when the American colonists signed the Treaty of Paris to end the Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens represented the United States in the Paris talks. David Hartley and Richard Oswald, representing Great Britain, ceded all the land east of the Mississippi River, north of Florida, and south of Canada.
It was highly favorable for the US, with the British anticipating a highly profitable two-way trade between the two, which indeed came to pass. (1783)MORE Good News on this Day:
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- Officials opened the Trans-Canada Highway, which stretched over 4800 miles from coast to coast (1962)
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