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 159
... colonies . On the eve of the American Revolution she had predicted that if England refused to negotiate she would lose her colonies and much of her standing as a world power.57 She followed closely the activities and speeches of the ...
... colonies . On the eve of the American Revolution she had predicted that if England refused to negotiate she would lose her colonies and much of her standing as a world power.57 She followed closely the activities and speeches of the ...
Page 171
... colonies toward inde- pendence was equivocal and that Congress had neither authority nor credit.180 Again , toward the end of October he wrote La Luzerne that France long had intelligence about the indifferent attitude of the South ...
... colonies toward inde- pendence was equivocal and that Congress had neither authority nor credit.180 Again , toward the end of October he wrote La Luzerne that France long had intelligence about the indifferent attitude of the South ...
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... colonies could be satisfied by a grant of independence , then Oswald " submitted to better judges whether it ought not to be done without delay as an introductive preliminary to a general peace . " Thus the gratitude of the Americans ...
... colonies could be satisfied by a grant of independence , then Oswald " submitted to better judges whether it ought not to be done without delay as an introductive preliminary to a general peace . " Thus the gratitude of the Americans ...
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