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Lectures in History

1783 Treaty of Paris

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Kathleen DuVal teaches a class about the end of the American Revolution and the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.

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This week, a class about the end of the American Revolution and the 1783 Treaty of Paris,

0:44.2

taught by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Kathleen Duval.

0:49.7

Welcome to History 238 at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. In the last lecture that I gave to this class,

0:58.0

French and American forces defeated the British at the Battle of Yorktown, and British public opinion had shifted away from continuing this long war to put down the rebellion in the 13 British colonies

1:14.4

that were rebelling. So now today we are going to go to Paris in July of 1782, where Britain

1:23.0

and its former colonists were beginning to negotiate what would be the result of this war for American independence?

1:33.8

First of all, independence itself was a foregone conclusion.

1:40.0

The former colonies, the 13 of them that had risen in rebellion against their empire, were going to be an independent nation.

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