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January 20 1783 Cessation Of Hostilities Signed During American Revolutionary War

January 20th 2012 00:01
On January 20th 1783, the British and U.S. Commissioners signed a preliminary “Cessation of Hostilities,” which led to the Treaty of Paris and Treaty of Versailles, thus ending the Revolutionary War.

The agreement:

Declarations for Suspension of Arms and Cessation of Hostilities, signed at Versailles January 20, 1783. Both original declarations in French, and American declaration also in English.

We the underwritten Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States of North America, having received from Mr Fitz-Herbert, Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, a Declaration relative to a Suspension of Arms to be establish’d between his said Majesty and the said States, of which the following is a Copy. viz:

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