Ace wrote:

...after the King granted the lessor portion of the
North American continent, now known as the US, their independence....

It was no gift, and we don't pay rent, but we did win a "new lease on
life" so to speak. Perhaps that is what you meant.

Ol' George simply acknowledged the new reality, and "granted" nothing.


The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783: http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/paris.html

"Article 1:

His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States...
to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them
as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all
claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the
same and every part thereof."



Jack