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 228
... Jay cut a humiliating figure . Although Franklin from time to time came to Jay's rescue with modest advances , 38 Jay was reduced time and again to borrowing money for his own subsistence and that of his household.39 To the palace of La ...
... Jay cut a humiliating figure . Although Franklin from time to time came to Jay's rescue with modest advances , 38 Jay was reduced time and again to borrowing money for his own subsistence and that of his household.39 To the palace of La ...
Page 305
... Jay shared Franklin's sense of obligation to the French court or the doctor's deference to the advice of the Comte de Vergennes.111 Jay was not the man to take dictation from Versailles . Jay's negotiations with Oswald were being ...
... Jay shared Franklin's sense of obligation to the French court or the doctor's deference to the advice of the Comte de Vergennes.111 Jay was not the man to take dictation from Versailles . Jay's negotiations with Oswald were being ...
Page 359
... Jay's provisional draft , the Scot confided to Jay the Pulteney story with its allegation that Vergennes had that spring made an offer " to divide America with Britain . " 67 Of course , the offer could never be substantiated because it ...
... Jay's provisional draft , the Scot confided to Jay the Pulteney story with its allegation that Vergennes had that spring made an offer " to divide America with Britain . " 67 Of course , the offer could never be substantiated because it ...
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