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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The Great Powers and American Independence Richard Brandon Morris. of State for Foreign Affairs , the Marqués de Grimaldi , Charles ' last promi- nent foreign adviser . Henceforth the government was Spanish - controlled and Spanish ...
The Great Powers and American Independence Richard Brandon Morris. of State for Foreign Affairs , the Marqués de Grimaldi , Charles ' last promi- nent foreign adviser . Henceforth the government was Spanish - controlled and Spanish ...
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... Foreign Minister would not accept so unpalatable a prescription from any physicians other than outside mediators . Vergennes ' approach to a truce had a subtle difference from Necker's , to be sure , but the consequences could have been ...
... Foreign Minister would not accept so unpalatable a prescription from any physicians other than outside mediators . Vergennes ' approach to a truce had a subtle difference from Necker's , to be sure , but the consequences could have been ...
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... Foreign Office by accredited French envoys to foreign capitals , the Comte seemed to set great store by the services of persons of checkered and unsavory backgrounds , whose contacts a far less austere personage might have found ...
... Foreign Office by accredited French envoys to foreign capitals , the Comte seemed to set great store by the services of persons of checkered and unsavory backgrounds , whose contacts a far less austere personage might have found ...
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