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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... boundary of the United States , free commerce with some port or ports on the Mississippi below that boundary , and , lastly , the cession to the United States of Nova Scotia or the latter's independence , this last subject to the ...
... boundary of the United States , free commerce with some port or ports on the Mississippi below that boundary , and , lastly , the cession to the United States of Nova Scotia or the latter's independence , this last subject to the ...
Page 308
... boundary claims , not only because of their insistence on the Mississippi as the western boundary , but also for their venturing to assert title to the Northwest Territory , which France hoped England would retain as part of Canada ...
... boundary claims , not only because of their insistence on the Mississippi as the western boundary , but also for their venturing to assert title to the Northwest Territory , which France hoped England would retain as part of Canada ...
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... boundary for West Florida than either was prepared to allot to Spain . Shrouded in a thick mist of divergent maps , claims , and counterclaims , the northeastern boundary line remained the one to be most stubbornly contested . Since ...
... boundary for West Florida than either was prepared to allot to Spain . Shrouded in a thick mist of divergent maps , claims , and counterclaims , the northeastern boundary line remained the one to be most stubbornly contested . Since ...
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