The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American IndependenceHarper & Row, 1965 - Definitive Treaty of Peace Between Great Britain and the United States - 572 pages A story of espionage, intrigue, chicanery, and cynical self-interest, a diplomatic history. |
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Page 185
... British Foreign Office had a similar effect on the diplomats quartered in Vienna . The British made it clear to Graf von Belgiojoso , Austria's envoy to London , that they still refused to negotiate with the rebels and would consider ...
... British Foreign Office had a similar effect on the diplomats quartered in Vienna . The British made it clear to Graf von Belgiojoso , Austria's envoy to London , that they still refused to negotiate with the rebels and would consider ...
Page 361
... British . The new American negotiator , John Adams , contrary to predictions , proved no more inflexible than his colleagues , and perhaps surprised both sides by a readiness to make concessions . The first of these seems to have come ...
... British . The new American negotiator , John Adams , contrary to predictions , proved no more inflexible than his colleagues , and perhaps surprised both sides by a readiness to make concessions . The first of these seems to have come ...
Page 389
... British found unpalatable the few crumbs that the Spaniards were prepared to leave on the banquet table . Rayneval was without power to satisfy the British in either the Mediterranean or the West Indies . He frankly pointed out that ...
... British found unpalatable the few crumbs that the Spaniards were prepared to leave on the banquet table . Rayneval was without power to satisfy the British in either the Mediterranean or the West Indies . He frankly pointed out that ...
Contents
THREE VOYAGERS IN SEARCH OF PEACE I | 1 |
ARMADA AGAINST ENGLAND | 27 |
PRIEST AND PLAYWRIGHT AT THE PARDO | 43 |
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Abbé Morellet alliance ally ambassador American commissioners American independence April Aranda Baudouin Boston Patriot Breteuil Britain British Cabinet Charles James Fox colonies Comte de Vergennes Conde considered court CP Aut Cumberland Diary diplomatic dispatch draft Dutch England envoy fisheries Florida Floridablanca Foreign Minister France France's Franklin French George George III Gérard Gibraltar Grenville Henry Laurens Hussey Ibid insisted instructions Jay's John Adams John Jay July June Kaunitz King La Luzerne Laurens letter Letterbook Livingston London Lord Loyalists Luzerne Madrid Maurepas mediation Ministry mission Mississippi Montbarrey Montmorin Mountstuart Necker negotiations North North Ministry Oswald Papers Paris Parliament peace peacemaking preliminaries President of Congress proposed Rayneval reported Richard Oswald Rockingham Russia secret Secretary Sept Shelburne Shelburne's Spain Spaniards Spanish Strachey Thurne treaty truce United Vaughan Vérac Versailles Walpole