Documents in Year 1783                     

Links of Interest:

• King George III, British Monarch

In the Treaty of Paris in 1783 Britain agreed to recognize American independence and succeeds the land west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River to the United States. The Native Americans, however, did not surrender.

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• Education:

  Noah Webster (1758-1843)

a teacher who "had the greatest influence on education in the new republic. Of his textbooks, (including the world-famous American Dictionary of the English Language), the most important was the Elementary Spelling Book, published in 1783, often referred to as the "blue-black speller" because of the color of the binding. By 1875, 75 million copies of the speller had been sold, many of which were used again and again."
Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 127 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010 see 1785 for next event...

• Military:

  American Revolution 1775-1783

All about the American Revolution from battles and commanders to documents and timeline.

• American Revolutionary War Reenactment organization

Field Guide has drawings of Continental forces uniforms