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 387
... French , for , as the British East India Company reminded their Ministry , yielding to the Dutch was tantamount to ceding key points in the Indies to French control.3 When one compares the peace objectives of the parties it is clear ...
... French , for , as the British East India Company reminded their Ministry , yielding to the Dutch was tantamount to ceding key points in the Indies to French control.3 When one compares the peace objectives of the parties it is clear ...
Page 407
... French Tobago served as an intermediary point for trade between Guiana and the French islands , whereas Dominica had a proven value as a free port and was considered by Shelburne's naval experts as essential for the preservation of the ...
... French Tobago served as an intermediary point for trade between Guiana and the French islands , whereas Dominica had a proven value as a free port and was considered by Shelburne's naval experts as essential for the preservation of the ...
Page 564
... French agent , 132-133 Luzac , Jean , 201 MacDermott , Abbé , 84 Machiavelli , 154 Maddison , George , 435 Madison , James , 238 , 239 , 265 ; checks anti - French move , 440 , 441 ; criticizes secret article , 442 ; as Jay's ...
... French agent , 132-133 Luzac , Jean , 201 MacDermott , Abbé , 84 Machiavelli , 154 Maddison , George , 435 Madison , James , 238 , 239 , 265 ; checks anti - French move , 440 , 441 ; criticizes secret article , 442 ; as Jay's ...
Contents
THREE VOYAGERS IN SEARCH OF PEACE I | 1 |
ARMADA AGAINST ENGLAND | 27 |
PRIEST AND PLAYWRIGHT AT THE PARDO | 43 |
Copyright | |
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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