Originally Posted by Mick

I did not realise you were that old to remember how it was before... but you have your year wrong/mixed up, you mean the year 1776. The year the Declaration of Independence was signed and when the Colonists declared the United States Of America as a sovereign nation, no longer under British rule.

1783 was the year the Treaty of Paris was signed, which finally ushered peace between the U.S and Great Britain. We have the French to thank for this as they were warn out with constant wars, only Spain wanted the war to carry on, they had their hearts set on Gibraltar even as early as then.

That's your history lesson done for today.