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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... ally's ally , His Most Catholic Majesty . Should they for one moment forget it , the Chevalier Gérard , considered the representative of Spanish interests in America , was there to remind them of their duty.3 35 So far as France was ...
... ally's ally , His Most Catholic Majesty . Should they for one moment forget it , the Chevalier Gérard , considered the representative of Spanish interests in America , was there to remind them of their duty.3 35 So far as France was ...
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... ally as by those of her enemy . For Jay the sensible course to adopt - and he was above all else a sensible man - was to pursue a more conciliatory line toward the British adversary while keeping his distance from his ally . Each of the ...
... ally as by those of her enemy . For Jay the sensible course to adopt - and he was above all else a sensible man - was to pursue a more conciliatory line toward the British adversary while keeping his distance from his ally . Each of the ...
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... ally was too great to admit that a hated symbol of foreign occupation could not be expunged . The war aims and long - range interests of his American ally seemed absolutely irreconcilable with those of Spain . To cap it all , his Dutch ally ...
... ally was too great to admit that a hated symbol of foreign occupation could not be expunged . The war aims and long - range interests of his American ally seemed absolutely irreconcilable with those of Spain . To cap it all , his Dutch ally ...
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