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 270
... Shelburne's instructions . Shelburne asked Oswald to propose some kind of federal union , but should the Americans reject it and insist upon inde- pendence , he told his emissary , " It will be done roundly and so as to obviate occasion ...
... Shelburne's instructions . Shelburne asked Oswald to propose some kind of federal union , but should the Americans reject it and insist upon inde- pendence , he told his emissary , " It will be done roundly and so as to obviate occasion ...
Page 331
... Shelburne instructed Oswald at a later date to learn through Fitzherbert just how Rayneval and his court stood as regards America's territorial claims . According to Shelburne's own acount , Rayneval gave him to understand that , once ...
... Shelburne instructed Oswald at a later date to learn through Fitzherbert just how Rayneval and his court stood as regards America's territorial claims . According to Shelburne's own acount , Rayneval gave him to understand that , once ...
Page 339
... Shelburne was later to insist on this point in defense of his course before Parliament . Neither Townshend nor Shelburne admitted any such thing to Oswald , however , when on the following day a new commission was sent over to Paris ...
... Shelburne was later to insist on this point in defense of his course before Parliament . Neither Townshend nor Shelburne admitted any such thing to Oswald , however , when on the following day a new commission was sent over to Paris ...
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