What date did the USA win independence? Was, it 30 November 1782? Was, this part of the Treaty of Versailles?

Question

At the end of the American War of Independence, I know that Britain provisionally recognised the independence of the USA as part of the Preliminary Articles of Peace which were signed 30 November 1782 and ratified by congress 15 April 1783. I do not know if this formed part of the final Peace Treaty of Versailles, or whether it was a separate agreement. Were the Preliminary Articles, a preliminary part of the Treaty of Versailles, or were they entirely separate, coming before the main treaty? Also, did the main Peace Treaty of Versailles serve to finalise the Preliminary Articles, thus meaning that American Independence would be dated from the date of those Preliminary Articles: 30 November 1782?

Answer 1

I concur with GenevievesMom.

The Treaty of Paris of 1783, signed on September 3, 1783, and ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784. By signing of this treaty England recognized American independence. But the reality is that England lost 2 Armies in the American campaign and the Independence was fairly won at Yorktown for all intense and purposes America was independent when Cornwallis surrender.

Answer 2

Treaty of Paris, signed November 30th 1782. It did not come into effect until it was ratified in 1783, by both Congress and the British Parliament.

By its terms Britain recognized the independence of the United States with generous boundaries, including the Mississippi River on the west. Britain retained Canada but ceded East and West Florida to Spain. Provisions were inserted calling for the payment of American private debts to British citizens, for American access to the Newfoundland fisheries, and for a recommendation by the Continental Congress to the states in favour of fair treatment of the loyalists.

The Treaty of Versailles was a different treaty which ended the First World War.

Answer 3

While that is true, there is also an argument that the USA didn't fully receive its independence until after the end of the War of 1812. It was sort of like the American Revolution II, the sequel, this time it's for real. Of course just to complicate things, the Treaty of Ghent ending the war, and actually saying that everything would return to the way it was before (so nothing was accomplished in this war) on Christmas Day in 1814, the biggest battle of the war, the Battle of New Orleans was actually fought in January 1815!

History always loves to make things more complicated than they first appear.

Answer 4

October 19,1781 was the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. From our perspective this is the date when we won our independence. The war ended, soldiers returned home and diplomats went to work on the particulars of fishing rights and boundaries. But for all intents and purposes this is the date of our victory.

Answer 5

It was the MOST important portion of of the Treaty of Paris, spelled out in Article 1 of the text.

Answer 6

Have you ever heard of the 4th of july 1776
Ring any bells like the liberty bell we had ind dependence if england liked it or not