Congress ratified preliminary articles of peace ending the Revolutionary War with Great Britain on April 15, 1783. On September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, bringing the Revolutionary War to its final conclusion.
The Spanish government again reasserted their sovereignty of Belize in subsequent treaties of 1783 and 1786. In the Treaty of Versailles, which was signed by the British and Spanish governments, the concession given by Spain to Britain to cut logwood were defined more precisely than in the Treaty of 1763.
