Fort Miami (Ohio)
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Fort Miami was a British fort built in spring 1794 on the Maumee River in what was at the time territory claimed by the United States, and designated by the federal government as the Northwest Territo
Earthworks at the site
Fort Miami, looking toward Fort Meigs, Maumee, Ohio
Fort Miami on the Maumee River above Toledo, Ohio
Fort Miami, Maumee, Ohio
Treaty of Paris (1783)
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The Treaty of Paris, signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783, officially ended the War of American Independence and
Fort Miami (Ohio)
…a putative assault on Fort Detroit by Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne's army, then advancing northward in southwestern Ohio. Under the terms of the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War, the region south of the Great Lakes and between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers was assigned to the United…
The first page of the Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783
Treaty of Paris, a 1783 portrait by Benjamin West depicting the American delegation at the Treaty of Paris, including (left to right): John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin. The British delegation refused to pose, and the portrait was never completed.
A commemorative plaque of the Treaty of Paris on the site where the treaty was signed, 56 Rue Jacob in Paris, on September 3, 1783
The last page of the Treaty of Paris