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 177
... Oswald viewed with perfect equanimity the presence of the Russians on the Pacific coast and even the ultimate extension of Russian power down the coast to Peru and Chile . To expedite Russia's intervention England , according to Oswald's ...
... Oswald viewed with perfect equanimity the presence of the Russians on the Pacific coast and even the ultimate extension of Russian power down the coast to Peru and Chile . To expedite Russia's intervention England , according to Oswald's ...
Page 270
... Oswald preferred to stress the constructive rather than the negative side of Shelburne's instructions . Shelburne asked Oswald to propose some kind of federal union , but should the Americans reject it and insist upon inde- pendence ...
... Oswald preferred to stress the constructive rather than the negative side of Shelburne's instructions . Shelburne asked Oswald to propose some kind of federal union , but should the Americans reject it and insist upon inde- pendence ...
Page 279
... Oswald , but then thought better of it . Instead , he wrote a note to the same purpose addressed to Oswald , which the Scot could show to Shelburne.141 To avoid an open scandal , Shelburne had written Fox on May 20th suggesting full ...
... Oswald , but then thought better of it . Instead , he wrote a note to the same purpose addressed to Oswald , which the Scot could show to Shelburne.141 To avoid an open scandal , Shelburne had written Fox on May 20th suggesting full ...
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