The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" id="mwUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a> signs preliminary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)" id="mwUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Treaty of Paris (1783)">articles of peace</a> with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" id="mwVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kingdom of France">Kingdom of France</a>, setting the stage for the official end of hostilities in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" id="mwVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> later that year.<sup about="#mwt45" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_20#cite_note-7" id="mwVg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwVw">[7]</span></a></sup>
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