Did Benjamin Franklin represent the US at the Treaty of Paris?
Following the American and French victory over the British at Yorktown, the British House of Commons became concerned about not only losing the war, but getting favorable terms for a peace treaty. Prime Minister North resigned and was replaced by Lord Shelborne who sent Richard Oswald to Paris to meet with the American representatives there. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay negotiated an end to the war and signed the Treaty of Paris on 3 September 1783.
