Provisional treaty drafted
- When
- November 30, 1782
- Where
- Location of drafting not stated in the supplied passages; some negotiations occurred at Lansdowne House
The treaty was drafted on November 30, 1782, with Shelburne seeking to separate the United States from France.
The treaty was drafted on November 30, 1782. Shelburne, in charge of the British negotiations—some of which took place in his study at Lansdowne House, now a bar in the Lansdowne Club—saw a chance to split the United States from France and establish the new nation as a valuable economic partner. The resulting treaty was highly favorable for the United States and deliberately so from the British point of view, as Shelburne foresaw highly profitable two-way trade between Britain and the rapidly-growing United States.
Sources
- Treaty of Paris (1783) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29
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