The Franco-Spanish reconquest of Menorca (historically called "Minorca" by the British) from its British invaders in February 1782, after the Siege of Fort St. Philip lasting over five months, was an important step in the achievement of Spain's aims in its alliance with France against Britain during the American Revolutionary War, the ultimate result was the devolution of the island to Spain in which treaty, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on which date, ended the American Revolutionary War?