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Great issue on announcing peace with America...
Great issue on announcing peace with America...
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December 05, 1782
THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Dec. 5, 1782 The front page has a very significant announcement which essentially announces that the formal end of the Revolutionary War is but a document away: "...take this opportunity of acquainting you that a messenger is this moment arrived from Paris with an account of a provisional article having been signed the 30th of November by his Majesty's Commissioners & the Commissioners of the United States of America to be inserted in, and constitute a Treaty of Peace, which is to be concluded when terms of peace should be agreed upon between Great Britain & France, in order that your Lordship may make the same known as soon as possible." Yet another report on this is on page 5: "A cessation of hostilities with America, we hear, will immediately take place; it is the natural consequence of the preliminary which was signed at Paris by...Messrs. Franklin, Jay, Adams, and Jefferson...The articles were signed late in the evening of the 30th of November..." with more (see).
Yet another historic report is on the back page under: "London" with: "This day his Majesty went in the usual state to the House of Peers...speech from the throne...informed them that he had given the necessary orders to prohibit the farther prosecution of offensive war in America...pointed all his measures...to an entire reconciliation with the Colonies...and offered to declare them Free and Independent States by an article to be inserted in the Treaty of Peace..." with more (see).
The ftpg. has another unrelated report from Philadelphia noting in part: "The unfavourable reports received from the Kentucky country...a body of northern Indians were discovered in Lexington settlement...assembled about 100 men & pursued them...the whole party was entirely defeated...upwards of 40 men were left dead on the field; after scalping & mangling their bodes the Indians retired." (see)
Eight pages, 8 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches, good condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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