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 289
... commissioners had received from Congress . The old doctor showed a lot more backbone than either the Congress or its Secretary for Foreign Affairs . The notorious dispatch of June 15 , 1781 , which instructed the commissioners to govern ...
... commissioners had received from Congress . The old doctor showed a lot more backbone than either the Congress or its Secretary for Foreign Affairs . The notorious dispatch of June 15 , 1781 , which instructed the commissioners to govern ...
Page 336
... commissioner , who could not conceal his disappointment . Oswald tried now to pin the commissioners down to a definite commitment . " In your conference with the Doctor this morning , " he asked Jay , " did you and he agree that upon my ...
... commissioner , who could not conceal his disappointment . Oswald tried now to pin the commissioners down to a definite commitment . " In your conference with the Doctor this morning , " he asked Jay , " did you and he agree that upon my ...
Page 361
... commissioners , the issue of debts and Loyalists came up . Adams felt it important to distingush them . " I have no notion of cheating anybody , " he asserted . Strachey's face lit up , and his fellow Scotsman , Richard Oswald , wore a ...
... commissioners , the issue of debts and Loyalists came up . Adams felt it important to distingush them . " I have no notion of cheating anybody , " he asserted . Strachey's face lit up , and his fellow Scotsman , Richard Oswald , wore a ...
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