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 71
... Parliament , the recent decline of England's fortunes was " owing to a baleful and pernicious system " and " originated in unconstitutional controul and advice . " It was this system that " must be done away . " Speaker after speaker ...
... Parliament , the recent decline of England's fortunes was " owing to a baleful and pernicious system " and " originated in unconstitutional controul and advice . " It was this system that " must be done away . " Speaker after speaker ...
Page 72
... Parliament , even annual Parliaments . Paying lip service to the universal suffrage which the more extreme radicals ... Parliament , which might supersede that body should Parliament fail in its trust , and Wyvill was prepared to set up ...
... Parliament , even annual Parliaments . Paying lip service to the universal suffrage which the more extreme radicals ... Parliament , which might supersede that body should Parliament fail in its trust , and Wyvill was prepared to set up ...
Page 77
... Parliament , the pocket borough of Luggershall in Wiltshire , and he entered the Commons in 1774. There the lank , humor- less figure , clad in somber Puritan black , long hair falling down to his shoulders , quickly attracted attention ...
... Parliament , the pocket borough of Luggershall in Wiltshire , and he entered the Commons in 1774. There the lank , humor- less figure , clad in somber Puritan black , long hair falling down to his shoulders , quickly attracted attention ...
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