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This week episode 329 signing the peace treaty.

Back in episode 320, we covered the preliminary peace agreement that the delegations

from Britain and the US reached in the fall of 1782. That preliminary agreement resulted in a secession of hostilities

and a great amount of celebration.

But the war could not actually be over

until that preliminary agreement became a final treaty.

And one of the big impediments to the final treaty was the fact that the US could not sign off on a final piece

until Britain and France also did so, and France could not sign off on a peace until Spain also

agreed to a peace with Britain.

Spain had entered the war back in 1779 with the primary goal of taking back Gibraltar. Spain had

seated Gibraltar to Britain in 1713 as part of an agreement to get Britain to

end its role in the War of Spanish Succession. Ever since then,

Spain had been trying to get back this small rocky outcropping at the southern tip of Spain.

Spain and France had been besieging Gibraltar since 1779, while the attacks had greatly damaged the area,

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