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 79
... Lord Mansfield , whose direction to a jury in a recent prosecution of a Catholic priest for saying mass led to the priest's acquittal , barely escaped with his life . When he reached the House of Lords , he presided in Lord Thurlow's ...
... Lord Mansfield , whose direction to a jury in a recent prosecution of a Catholic priest for saying mass led to the priest's acquittal , barely escaped with his life . When he reached the House of Lords , he presided in Lord Thurlow's ...
Page 80
... Lord Stormont , the Lord Mayor took some half- hearted security measures . By Sunday , the fourth of June , biting cold fanned by a brisk wind re- placed the sultry heat which had hung over the city . All day the mob gathered around the ...
... Lord Stormont , the Lord Mayor took some half- hearted security measures . By Sunday , the fourth of June , biting cold fanned by a brisk wind re- placed the sultry heat which had hung over the city . All day the mob gathered around the ...
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... Lord North , which Britain's First Lord of the Treasury transmitted to the King on July 29th . In North's opinion the letter carried a ring of sincerity " notwithstanding the very deceitful character of the writer . " Why all those ...
... Lord North , which Britain's First Lord of the Treasury transmitted to the King on July 29th . In North's opinion the letter carried a ring of sincerity " notwithstanding the very deceitful character of the writer . " Why all those ...
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