Timeline of the American Revolution/1782

by the Valley Forge National Historical Park division, United States National Park Service

1782

Stay The Course
By spring England initiated peace negotiations, yet fighting continued. On the seas, British, French, and Spanish navies continued to battle for supremacy. In America, warfare threatened security on the frontier and in the South. By November, however, Britain and the United States signed a draft peace agreement.

January
As the British begin to withdraw forces, loyalists flee the United States in great numbers. Over the course of the war, 100,000 tories depart.

April 12
Peace talks between Britain and the United States begin in Paris.

April 19
The Netherlands recognizes American sovereignty.

July 11
British end their occupation of Savannah, Georgia.

August 1
Haym Salomon, Broker to the Office of Finance, delivers the first of many large sums that help alleviate the nation's financial crisis at war's end.

August 15 - 19
Tories and Indians attack Bryan's Station (Kentucky). Daniel Boone and Kentuckians lose skirmish at Blue Licks.

August 27
John Laurens, promising young leader and former aide-de-camp to Washington, dies in fight at Combahee Ferry, South Carolina.

November 10
In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark attacks Shawnee town of Chillicothe (Ohio).

November
Continental Army moves into its eighth and final winter quarters, the New Windsor cantonment in the Hudson Highlands.

November 30
American and British ministers agree upon preliminary peace treaty.

December 14
British evacuate Charleston, South Carolina.