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 133
... agent took the stand to disclose how copies of many of these reports had been passed on to Lord Hillsborough's office , while the originals were allowed to proceed on their way to their illicit destination in France . Despite the ...
... agent took the stand to disclose how copies of many of these reports had been passed on to Lord Hillsborough's office , while the originals were allowed to proceed on their way to their illicit destination in France . Despite the ...
Page 139
... agent seemed strangely preoccupied . Whether Vergennes and his staff should have been alerted by the out- rageous advice of their paid agent at a rather early date , they continued to send him his monthly stipend despite a stream of ...
... agent seemed strangely preoccupied . Whether Vergennes and his staff should have been alerted by the out- rageous advice of their paid agent at a rather early date , they continued to send him his monthly stipend despite a stream of ...
Page 254
... agent's activities , the former fearing that the Dutch would jump at the chance of making a secret peace with the British , 38 the latter demanding that Wentworth's visit be ter- minated.34 Taking the broad hint , the British agent ...
... agent's activities , the former fearing that the Dutch would jump at the chance of making a secret peace with the British , 38 the latter demanding that Wentworth's visit be ter- minated.34 Taking the broad hint , the British agent ...
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